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A 3 page overview of the article by authors Rhoda Cummings, Cleborne Maddux, and Jack Casey published in the September 2000 issue of “The Career Development Quarterly”. These authors emphasize the importance of incorporating early developmentally appropriate vocational training for learning disabled students.
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in the September 2000 issue of "The Career Development Quarterly", authors Rhoda Cummings, Cleborne Maddux, and Jack Casey emphasize the importance of early and effective planning for easing students with
learning disabilities from the educational arena and into mainstream life. Such planning is key to allowing these students to find adequate employment and even to participate in their communities
to the fullest extent of their abilities. A transition plan for these students is, in fact, required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 1990 (Cummings, Maddux,
and Casey, 2000). IDEA mandates that this plan be completed for each student when they are eighteen years of age (Cummings, Maddux, and Casey, 2000). This plan is
to be inclusive of a statement of need in regard to vocational training and supported employment and independent living arrangements (Cummings, Maddux, and Casey, 2000).
Cummings, Maddux, and Casey (2000) assert that while the vocational special education literature has dealt extensively with the needs of those that are physically disabled or
that suffer from moderate to severe mental retardation, the needs of those with learning disabilities have been largely skirted. This is true despite the fact that learning disabilities can
result in "pervasive and lasting deficits" over the entire lifetime of the individual that suffers with them (Cummings, Maddux, and Casey, 2000, p. 60). Without adequate transition plans, learning
disabled students are not often successful in integrating themselves into life as a working adult (Cummings, Maddux, and Casey, 2000). The
problems associated with learning disabilities are varied. Learning disabilities typically reflect themselves in weaknesses in an individuals organizational skills, problems in focusing, "deficits in processing oral and written language,
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