Why not go to the sheltered workshop first and learn work and social skills?
Using a sheltered workshop to teach valued work and social skills might be like using an Ouija Board to improve team communication, to paraphrase management consultant Don Blohoiak. Segregated settings, especially community monuments such as workshops, stigmatize people with disabilities and make them stand out as different and incompetent. These facilities, and any other segregated models be they recreational or educational, interrupt the natural flow of personal interaction and activity common in communities. Learning valued work and social skills occurs only in typical environments.
