Supported Employment and Autism Ranking:

Audience

Supported employment is designed to help people who are disadvantaged in the labour market, including autistic people and other conditions or disabilities

According to Wehman and Kregel (1998),

“The target population that supported employment programs are designed for are those individuals who are severely handicapped and who traditionally have been excluded from competitive employment.”

In practice, some supported employment programmes (such as the US Vocational Rehabilitation System) are designed to help anyone with a disability while other, more specialist programmes (such as the Prospects supported employment service which used to be run by the National Autistic Society in the UK) are specifically designed to help autistic individuals.

Updated

17 Jun 2022

Last Review

01 Aug 2017

Next Review

01 Oct 2023