The article describes the diagnostic prescriptive teacher program, an organizational model designed to provide help within the regular classroom for children with mild learning problems. The key to the program is the diagnostic prescriptive teacher, a school-based specialist who combines diagnostic and consultative work in assisting the regular…

The study questioned 41 employees with learning or other mild disabilities, their parents, and employers on vocationally related items. A four-factor model--job match and accommodation, social acceptance, work rationalization and family support, and special programs and services--is advanced to explain job success. Results are interpreted in terms…