Paid Summer Work Experience for Rural Blind Youth

Abstract

The Ohio Bureau of Services for the Visually Impaired office provided a paid summer work experience program for high school students in a three-county area of Southern Ohio. The program consisted of two weeks of work evaluation/adjustment and eight weeks of paid work experience in which job coaches were used. Funding was through the Job Training and Partnership Act. The mean score on a pretest of the “knowledge of the world of work,” as devised by a certified vocational evaluator, was 76 percent correct; the mean score on the posttest was 93 percent correct.