Tania Burchardt's important study looks into the differences between the aspirations and achievements of young people with disabilities and their non-disabled peers.
Previous research in 1982 had shown that young people with disabilities were six times more likely to aspire to unskilled or semi-skilled jobs. Burchardt looks at what has happened since then and investigates the gap between aspirations and attainment by analysing data from cohort studies of children born in 1970 and in the early 1980s. She also explores their perceptions of this situation as young adults.
On first reading, it is certainly encouraging to note that disabled learners have more or less the same aspirations as their non-disabled counterparts; to participate in mainstream education, aiming higher and following the example set by successful disabled adults.
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