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Direct linkCimera, Robert Evert; Burgess, Sloane; Bedesem, Peña L. – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2014
This study examined the potential impact providing transition services early had on the vocational outcomes achieved by young adults with intellectual disability. Two groups were compared: 7,520 individuals from states requiring transition services be addressed in individualized educational programs (IEPs) by age 14 and 7,520 individuals from…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Mental Retardation, Program Effectiveness, Vocational Education
Cimera, Robert Evert; Burgess, Sloane; Novak, Jeanne; Avellone, Lauren – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2014
This study examined the rate at which applicants to Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) were denied services because their disabilities were "too severe." It found that, from 2002 to 2012, 1.7% of all VR applicants throughout the United States were denied services because of the nature of their impairments. In addition, over this period, the…
Descriptors: Vocational Rehabilitation, Severe Disabilities, Severity (of Disability), Mental Retardation
Cimera, Robert Evert; Burgess, Sloane; Wiley, Andrew – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2013
This study investigated whether receiving transition services early (i.e., by age 14) promoted better vocational outcomes than receiving transition services later (i.e., by age 16) for young adults with ASD. To do this, the outcomes achieved by two matched groups were examined--453 young adults from states requiring transition services be…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Outcomes of Education, Young Adults, Autism
Cimera, Robert Evert – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), 2009
This study explored the cost-efficiency of all 231,204 supported employees funded by vocational rehabilitation throughout the entire United States from 2002 to 2007. Results found that supported employees returned an average monthly net benefit to taxpayers of $251.34 (i.e., an annual net benefit of $3,016.08 per supported employee) and generated…
Descriptors: Supported Employment, Vocational Rehabilitation, Cost Effectiveness, Disabilities
Cimera, Robert Evert – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), 2007
This study explored the effect of utilizing natural supports strategies on the cost of supported employment in the state of Wisconsin. Data presented here suggest that the use of natural supports reduced annual per capita costs by 57.6%. Further, supported employees trained via natural supports generated cumulative costs of $5,063 over 6.04 fiscal…
Descriptors: Supported Employment, Costs, Job Training, Disabilities
Cimera, Robert Evert – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), 2007
This study investigated the cumulative costs generated by supported and sheltered employees with mental retardation throughout one "employment cycle," that is, from the moment they entered their respective programs to when they exited or stopped receiving services. Data indicate that supported employees acquired services costing funding sources a…
Descriptors: Supported Employment, Employees, Mental Retardation, Cost Effectiveness
