Sheltered workshop

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

I dislike the words sheltered workshop immensely. It conjures up images of the early 20th century when people were worked to death for low wages in horrible conditions, similar to the modern day sweatshops in Mexico and China. The problem I have with the term is that it was used in the 1980s and 1990s to describe day service programs for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Some people still use this term to describe the location where services are provided. That particular service model has not been used since the 1990s, but there are those in Washington D.C., who believe that sheltered workshops still exist and that all day service programs should be shut down because of that fact.

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