by requirements for the degree of (Education) - NCRTM

1966-67 to 20% (51) in 1968-69 (Table XVII). This is somewhat disturbing
since the poverty indicator for a single person as determined by the U. S.
Department of Labor (U. S. Department of Labor, 1969) is a net amount of
$1600 per year ($30.77) per week. The majority of individuals closed as
competitively employed received gross earnings between $51 and $75 per
week at the time of closure; this varied from 42% (66) of the total number
closed in 1966-67 to 61% (153) in 1968-69. Table xviI also shows that of
the 659 people closed as competitively employed over the three year period,
76% (503), were identified as mildly retarded, 22% (144) as moderately re-
tarded and two per cent (12) as severely retarded. There was little dif-
ference between the mildly and moderately retarded in the percentage of
people grouped in the various gross weekly earnings categories. The
earnings of the severely retarded tended to be low.
Of the 159 individuals closed in non-competitive employment during
the three years studied, 38% (61) were unpaid family workers, 35%
were sheltered workshop employees and 27% (43) were homemakers (Table
XVIII). The gross weekly earnings at time of closure for 92% (145) of
these clients was $25 or less; of this number 64% (i01) received no weekly
earnings because they were functioning as homemakers or unpaid family
workers. Seventy-six per cent (42 clients) of the sheltered workshop em-
ployees earned $25 or less per week. Of the non-competitively employed
58% (92) were identified as mildly retarded, 34% (54) as moderately re-
tarded, and eight per cent (13) as severely retarded.
A comparison of competitive and non-competitive closures shows that
84% of the mildly retarded, closed rehabilitated, were competitively em-
ployed; the percentages of the moderately and severely retarded placed
in competitive employment were 73% and 48% respectively.
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