Handicapped
Opportunities for the Handicapped There are many job opportunities for those who are mentally handicapped in the United States. ... Twenty-Three percent of the jobs available to the handicapped are not menial jobs. ... Statistics show that there is a Three Hundred percent rise in mentally handicapped workers in the last Twelve years. ... There are programs in the high schools that help the handicapped develop skills so that they are already capable of performing a task for a wage. The equivalent would be someone without a handicapped developing a trade. In Southern Maryland handicapped sophomore students spend a couple hours outside of the class room on certain days to get an experience of what it is like to work alongside others and to perform a service. ... “Eight out of every ten seriously handicapped men and women registered by the Placement Bureau of the Society for Crippled Children in Cleveland, Ohio, have been aided to find useful jobs in industry.