The Lack of People in the Workforce There have been several mandates in the past that were put in place to make sure that …show more content…
If vocational skills are implemented into all schools, now all individuals with disabilities are getting the proper skills and help they need in order to secure and work at jobs in the future, not just people with families and in specific programs that will teach them these skills. Also, now all people will understand the importance of work and employment, not just people from people who encouraged them to work. Schools that have programs that involve rehabilitation counselors for students tended to have students that went off into the workforce successfully. Schools that encouraged and helped students get job during secondary school also tended to produce students that had more luck getting jobs after school was over, because they already had prior work experience (Simonsen and Neubert, 2013,