Can community-based high school transition programs improve the cost-efficiency of supported employment?

Career Development for Exceptional Individuals

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 4-12

  Cimera, Robert Evert ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community based transition; Cost efficiency; In school transition; Supported employment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950532449     PISSN: 08857288     EISSN: 15575047     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0885728809346959     Document Type: Article

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