Many public programs provide services and support to developmentally disabled adults. Unfortunately, this services system often impedes or prevents the transition of developmentally disabled persons from school to work. It does so by fostering attitudes of dependency, creating major work disincentives, failing to provide adequate vocational service to many severely disabled persons, and by being poorly coordinaed. The changes that need to be made in the service system to reduce or eliminate these problems do not constitute major departures from current policies and are unlikely to be costly.
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