Veronica Lövgren

Factors of importance in the world of work for young people with intellectual disabilities

This paper presents a critical synthesis of a selection of national and international research concerning the working life of people with intellectual disabilities who have left special upper secon ...

Working life for middle-aged people with intellectual disabilities: knowing their rights?

Within disability research, studies have generally focused on either young adults or older people with intellectual disabilities. The in-between age group (adulthood and middle age) has rarely been ...

Towards Employment: What Research Says About Support-to-Work in Relation to Psychiatric and Intellectual Disabilities

ABSTRACT This article presents an overview of research about support-to-work in relation to psychiatric and intellectual disabilities. The overview shows that support-to-work services are multifaceted, and that work can be seen as a tool for individual rehabilitation or as a set of goals to achieve. Providers are presented with specific components, which are characterized by systematic, targeted, and individualized interventions. The overview illustrates a need for long-term engagement and cooperation of and between welfare services and agents within the labor market to dissolve the Gordian knot that the transition from welfare interventions to employment seems to be.