Research Paper on:
A Plan of Personal Transition from High School to the Workplace for a Person with MS

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Focus on a Disabled Individual While life decisions are complicated  for all individuals leaving school and the home of their parents and transitioning into the world of the adult, those decisions are particularly complex for the disabled individual. Many  times students with physical disabilities end up in special education classes with lowered academic expectations. Other times students are kept in mainstream classes and subjected to the same expectations  in terms of their academic performance as are non-disabled students. In many cases this educational partitioning of students with the same mental aptitudes but obvious physical disability results in  stereotyping, stereotyping which could reasonably be expected to play a role in educational attainment as well as in future career accomplishments. Such has certainly been the case in my  life experience. As an individual suffering from multiple sclerosis I have been subjected to a variety of educational situations and social expectations. Because my family moved an average  of once a year during my middle and high school years, my educational setting has ranged across the gamut from special education classes to mainstream placement and expectations. Although  I am mentally normal, I do have certain physical limitations which have necessitated special provisions which many of the smaller school systems I attended could not always accommodate. By  far the most debilitating aspect of my condition, however, was the extreme stereotyping which always seemed to associate physical limitations with mental incompetence. My goal in life is to  overcome those stereotypes and to secure a career which is both mentally and financially rewarding. I recognize that I have certain physical limitations