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Highlands County Project Search gives students with disabilities hands-on hospital work experience
Summary
Highlands County School District highlighted Project Search, a transition-to-work program based at AdventHealth Sebring that places 18–21-year-old interns with disabilities into three on-site internships and classroom instruction; presenters said several interns from the first cohort obtained paid jobs.
Project Search, a transition-to-work program for students with disabilities, was presented to the Highlands County School Board, with district staff and partner organizations describing hands-on internships at AdventHealth Sebring and local supports that help participants move into competitive employment.
The district’s ESE director, Pam Lanier, told the board Project Search immerses participants in health-care work environments and pairs a full-time special-education instructor with job skills trainers. Lanier said the local program has operated for two years and that a classroom is set up on the…
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