Life Skills for Vocational Success

Since 1998, Life Skills for Vocational Success has been used by thousands of organizations and individuals throughout the nation. This guide, written in everyday language, offers down-to-earth and practical training for teachers, counselors and parents who want to assist adults with disabilities to live full lives. The Table of Contents is available here.

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The unemployment rate for people with disabilities is more than 50% greater than for people without disabilities

People with disabilities constitute the nation's largest minority group, and the only group any of us can become a member of at any time

Of 70 million families in the United States, more than 20 million have at least one family member with a disability

The unemployment rate of people with disabilities is ten times greater than the national unemployment rate

People with disabilities are nearly twice as likely as people without disabilities to have an annual household income of $15,000 or less

According to the U.S. Department of Education, workers with disabilities are rated consistently as average or above average in performance, quality and quantity of work, flexibility, and attendance.

Alabama has the second highest rate of disability in the U.S.