Employment of the Mentally Retarded

Abstract

A survey was made of the records in the state office of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation to determine the extent to which educable retarded youth found employment on jobs for which they were trained in the Texas statewide Cooperative Program of Special Education in the public schools. Records for a 26 month period provided the data. A total of 1127 (787 male and 341 female) out of 1405 (977 male and 428 female), or 80.2 percent, secured employment on a job for which they were trained. The difference between male and female students was less than 1 percentage point.