Specifications include, but are not limited to: Work-based learning is defined as the participation in work activities in a real work setting that are designed to help individuals with disabilities gain soft and hard skills for work, learn about, and experience actual work in possible fields of interest, and provide these individuals with the opportunity to have hands-on exposure to jobs. Paid work experience is an effective strategy for providing work-based learning opportunities to individuals with disabilities, and particularly for students with disabilities. The objective of the Paid Work Experience Services is to increase work-based learning opportunities for Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) participants who are students with disabilities through Texas’ integrated workforce system.
