"Escaping the Disability Trap: What’s the best way to prepare special-needs students for the workforce?"

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"Escaping the Disability Trap: What’s the best way to prepare special-needs students for the workforce?"

"Today, more than 1 million students are trapped in an education system that wasn’t built for them. That system wasn’t designed to accommodate their disabilities—the kinds of intellectual, cognitive, communicative, and physical conditions that often conjure images of people reliant on wheelchairs and aides, of individuals consigned to dreary, isolated lives. Many of the public schools they attend rest on the assumption that those stereotypes are inevitable truths."