An individual placement is one in which the worker with disabilities is placed in an employment setting, most often without other workers with disabilities doing the same tasks.  In fact, is smaller businesses, the employee may be the only employee with disabilities.  As with the other supported employment models, a job coach is assigned to provide whatever support is necessary for the worker to maintain her employment.  Again, one can see that the individual placement is one step further to the most natural of integrated employment settings, competitive employment.  Once a worker is in an individual placement, the job coach can endeavor to turn support responsibilities over to the indigenous workers.  Some larger employers are beginning to provide their own in-house job coaches in order to support individual placements.  Such an arrangement begins to blur the line between supported and competitive employment, as the employer is simply supporting another of her employees.  Obviously, not all employees need the same level of support.

Using our evaluative criteria,

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