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Chapter 8 - Don’t Give Up on Us

Young People’s Experiences of Education and Employment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2025

Kathy Ellem ,
Paul Harpur ,
Fotina Hardy ,
Michael Ashley Stein  and
Ann Fudge Schormans
Kathy Ellem
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
Paul Harpur
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
Fotina Hardy
Affiliation:
Central Queensland University
Michael Ashley Stein
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
Ann Fudge Schormans
Affiliation:
McMaster University, Ontario
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Summary

Young people with cognitive disability found school to be both good and bad. Things were good when young people had friends and when teachers listened and tried to help. Things were bad when the school wanted young people with cognitive disability to be like everyone else. Young people could be punished or neglected if they didn’t fit in with everyone else. Leaving school could be hard. Young people with cognitive disability often didn’t have a job or university to go to. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities says that all people with disability have a right to a good education, and that people should be supported to get a job or to learn more after school.

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educationemploymentyoung peoplecognitive disabilityConvention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
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Young People with Cognitive Disability in Transition to Adulthood , pp. 155 - 168
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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