A Health, Function, and Career Development Framework for People with Learning Disabilities.
Background: People with learning disabilities (LDs) are a large and growing segment of the American and global disability communities, but they tend to underutilize vocational rehabilitation (VR) services. Objective: This article presents a contextual career development framework, the Illinois Work...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation Vol. 64; no. 3; pp. 237 - 248 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
May2026
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