Meeting the unique career education needs of the learning disabled requires appropriate, systematic models for career education development. Currently, few such programs are available because of the reluctance of secondary learning disabilities teachers to abandon the remedial academic model. The author traces some of the current trends in career education for the learning disabled and presents a model for providing career education to secondary learning disabled students.
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