Work-Based Learning
Accommodation Resources: Work-Based Learning
Learn and Earn: Supporting Teens
Parents, teachers, and mentors encourage teens with disabilities to participate in work-based learning experiences to more effectively promote them for young people with disabilities.
Learn and Earn: Tips for Teens
Students with disabilities show how they benefit from work-based learning experiences.
Access to Technology in the Workplace: In Our Own Words
Employees with disabilities share how accessible technology benefits them in the workplace.
It's Your Career
College students with disabilities tell about the value of work-based learning experiences and how to get these opportunities.
Finding Gold: Hiring the Best and the Brightest
Employers in cooperative education, internship, and other work-based learning programs show how to fully include participants with disabilities.
Work-Based Learning
Work-based learning experiences can help a student make career decisions, network with potential employers, select courses of study, and develop job skills relevant to future employment. Through the interaction of work and study experiences, students can enhance their academic knowledge, personal development, and professional preparation.