Rehabilitation Research and Training Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
Work. 2024;77(3):721-729. doi: 10.3233/WOR-246003.
Customized employment (CE) is recognized in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (2014) as a strategy for promoting competitive integrated employment. However, the existing body of evidence supporting CE is mainly descriptive rather than experimental research.
This study examined the impact of CE on the employment outcomes, hours worked per week, and wages of transition-age youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
The outcomes of transition-age youth participating in a CE intervention were compared to those receiving treatment-as-usual using a randomized controlled trial design.
Participants receiving CE were significantly more likely to secure competitive integrated employment than controls who received treatment-as-usual. Participants in the intervention and control conditions earned similar wages. Participants in the control condition worked more hours per week than those in CE.
The findings from this study demonstrate the effectiveness of CE to assist transition-age youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities in obtaining competitive integrated employment, but future research is needed to examine factors impacting weekly hours and wages of participants in CE.
定制化就业（CE）在《劳动力创新和机会法案》（2014 年）中被认可为促进具有竞争力的综合就业的一种策略。然而，现有的支持 CE 的证据主要是描述性的，而不是实验性研究。
本研究考察了 CE 对智力和发育障碍的过渡年龄青年的就业结果、每周工作小时数和工资的影响。
采用随机对照试验设计，比较了参与 CE 干预的过渡年龄青年与接受常规治疗的青年的结果。
接受 CE 的参与者获得竞争性综合就业的可能性明显高于接受常规治疗的对照组。干预组和对照组的参与者收入相当。对照组的参与者每周工作时间比 CE 组多。
本研究的结果表明，CE 有助于帮助智力和发育障碍的过渡年龄青年获得竞争性的综合就业，但需要进一步研究影响 CE 参与者每周工作时间和工资的因素。
