Leaving the sheltered workshop

The sheltered workshop as a community recycling center.

ANY SHELTERED WORKSHOPS do not provide actual work. Sheltered workshops often exist to provide a place for handicapped individuals to spend their day engaging in arts and crafts activities that are unsalable. Many sheltered workshops have greenhouses that grow and sell plants and herbs for little more than it costs to buy seed. Most workshops do business on a contract by contract basis where a ...

Redefining The Purpose of Sheltered Workshops

Do sheltered workshops enhance employment outcomes for adults with autism spectrum disorder?

This study investigated whether sheltered workshops help prepare individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) for competitive employment within the community. Two groups of individuals were compared: (a) 215 supported employees who were in sheltered workshops prior to entering supported employment and (b) 215 supported employees who were not in sheltered workshops. Individuals from both grou...

Vocational histories of sheltered workshop employees placed in projects with industry and competitive jobs.

Job placement histories of 73 sheltered workshop employees placed in Projects With Industry (PWI) or competitive jobs in calendar year 1978 are examined during a 30 month period. Of the 27 people placed in PWI positions, 48% are subsequently placed in competitive jobs. Of the 53 competitive placements in 1978, 60% are competitively employed 71-80. Job variables such as structure appear to be mo...

Barbora Vidová Hladká

In: Journées ATALA-Corpus annotés pour la syntaxe; ATALA Workshop-Treebanks, Journées ATALA-Corpus annotés pour la syntaxe; ATALA Workshop-Treebanks, Hladká Barbora: When a statistically oriented parser was more efficient than a linguist: A case of treebank conversion. In: The Prague