re: "Job Training"

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You are going to find very few successful people in these trades with a IQ of 89

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I get your point, but the need for early transition to vocational training is even more important for this population.

One of my cousins (well, his brother married one of my cousins, but that's close enough around here) - was a savant with automatic transmissions - I guarantee you his IQ wasn't 95 - probably in the mid-80s, at most - but you could put him in a dark room with an AT, a rebuild kit and just tell him what kind it was, and he would be able to get it done by feel - good thing because his vision was failing him by his mid-30s. He died young, but he was highly sought after for his automatic transmission skills.

Of course, it didn't hurt that his father and brother were great mechanics and he was working on cars about the time he started walking.