Abstract
This five-week residential program is very intensive and seeks to establish a “boot camp” environment in which great demands are made upon students, forcing them to achieve through a heightening of their self-awareness and self-esteem. Instruction includes seminars on job-hunting and interview techniques (followed by competition for available jobs), classes in daily living skills, mobility, sensory development, and physical education; and rap sessions on attitudes, feelings, and anxieties. Employer evaluations, academic and skills tests, and standard psychological tests indicated that the program had attained its goals. Parent involvement, though encouraged, remained at a low level.
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