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The objective was to compare employment status of junior/community
college graduates with and without disabilities. We compared
post-graduation outcomes of 182 graduates with and 1304 without disabilities from
career/technical and pre-university programs from three junior/community
colleges. Findings for graduates who had registered for disability related
services from their school and those who had not were examined separately.
Reported academic obstacles and facilitators were also compared. RESULTS: Few
employment differences between graduates with and without disabilities were
found. Two-thirds of career/technical graduates from both groups were employed,
approximately 30% were studying, and less than 3% were either looking for work or
"unavailable for work." Over 80% of pre-university graduates in both groups were
continuing their studies; here, too, numbers of employed graduates (14% with and
13% without disabilities) were similar and very few in both groups (<2%) were
either looking for work or "unavailable for work." Full versus part-time
employment of these two groups was very similar and the same proportion of
graduates with and without disabilities were working in jobs related to their
studies. Only in "closely related" work did graduates without disabilities have
the advantage. CONCLUSIONS: Employment prospects for junior/community college
graduates with disabilities seem to be quite positive.

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