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Jennifer A. Kurth; Tyler A. Hicks; Karrie A. Shogren; Alison L. Zagona; J. Matt Jameson; Lewis Jackson; Martin Agran; Diane Ryndak – Journal of Special Education, 2025
Most students with complex support needs are taught in separate special education classrooms; one reason is teams that inappropriately use the intensity of support needs as the basis for placement in more restrictive placements. This study used Bayesian multilevel modeling to determine whether the intensity of student support needs predicted…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Severity (of Disability), Student Placement, Student Needs
Priya Lalvani; Eileen Osieja – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2025
This qualitative study examined the experiences of parents who sought inclusive education for their children with intellectual disabilities or extensive support needs. Data were collected from 33 participants in the form of narratives that emerged through semi-structured interviews and analyzed using a phenomenological methodology. Findings…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Inclusion, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability
Melissa Anne White – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Students with an intellectual disability encounter challenges throughout their educational journey and as they transition to adulthood. Securing and maintaining competitive employment for individuals with an intellectual disability is harder for them than for their non-disabled peers. The problem addressed in this qualitative, phenomenological…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Young Adults, Employment Potential
Kristen Bottema-Beutel; Noah J. Sasson; Rachael McKinnon; Caroline Braun; Ruoxi Guo; Brittany N. Hand; Steven K. Kapp; Daniel R. Espinas; Aiyana Bailin; Jessica Nina Lester; Betty Yu – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2024
Purpose: The language that school professionals use to describe disabled students can reveal and perpetuate ableist assumptions. Professionals' language choices can also challenge ableist attitudes to help create more inclusive, equitable learning environments. This tutorial seeks to guide speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and other school…
Descriptors: School Health Services, Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel, Disabilities
Richard Gregory; Cathy Atkinson – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2024
Person-centred planning (PCP) is both a philosophy and method of service delivery across varied contexts. It is used in pathway planning for young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) to promote positive transition outcomes. Due to idiosyncratic use, it is unclear how PCP meetings are organised and structured and to what…
Descriptors: Special Education, Individualized Transition Plans, Youth, Adolescents
Jeremy G. Armann – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This paper investigates the educational experiences of children and adolescents diagnosed with RYR1-related diseases, a spectrum of congenital myopathies affecting muscle function. Despite these conditions typically sparing cognitive abilities, they profoundly impact physical capabilities, presenting challenges in school environments such as…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Diseases, Educational Experience
Tameem Yahya Ali Basha; Abdo Saeed Al-Sana'ani; Sadeq Abdo Saif Al-Mekhlafi – Journal of International Special Needs Education, 2025
Despite having signed most international conventions and enacted numerous national legislations related to inclusive education (IE), the Yemen's educational system still faces many problems and barriers that hinder the success of IE programs. This study aims to investigate policies, practices, and barriers of IE for students with disabilities…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Barriers
Martha L. Thurlow; Andrew R. Hinkle; Sheryl S. Lazarus; Kristin K. Liu – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2024
There has been a paradigm shift from accommodations to the identification of levels of accessibility (e.g., universal features, designated features, and accommodations). A consequence of this shift is that many students with disabilities who previously were assigned accommodations now access many of them as universal or designated features. This…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Individualized Education Programs, Students with Disabilities, Troubleshooting
Katie Mae McCabe – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2024
In this article, we describe the exploration of the content and quality of annual goals included in the Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) of students with disabilities in one rural U.S. school district. We utilized content analysis to understand the district's service delivery model comprehensively. Findings revealed disparities between…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Evaluation, Rural Schools, Special Education
David R. Johnson; Yi-Chen Wu; Martha L. Thurlow; John M. LaVelle – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2024
This study used data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2012 (NLTS 2012) to explore the future goal aspirations of students with extensive support needs who participate in alternate assessments, compared to other students with extensive support needs and to students with other disabilities. We examined students' individualized…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Goal Orientation, Aspiration, Individualized Education Programs
Pauline Westcott – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) mandates that a transition plan be in place for students with disabilities by the time they turn 16. This plan aims to facilitate the child's movement from high school "to post-school activities, including postsecondary education, vocational education, integrated employment (including…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Students with Disabilities, Federal Legislation, Equal Education
Margaret Nikki Heiman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This mixed methods study on postsecondary outcomes for individuals with disabilities focused on the experiences of young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and significant disabilities from their perspective. The research questions include understanding their overall quality of life (QOL), the supports, services, and…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Equal Education, Students with Disabilities, Young Adults
Allison R. Lombardi; Graham G. Rifenbark; Ashley Taconet – Exceptional Children, 2024
In this preregistered study, we confirmed a transition-planning construct and determined its relationship with an established economic-hardship construct using parent- and youth-reported data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2012 and following established quality indicators of preregistered secondary data analyses studies.…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Transitional Programs, Educational Planning, Disabilities
Dragan Jankovic; Daniela Cvitkovic; Milena Kosak Babuder – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on the world led to major changes in educational practices worldwide and presented many challenges for students from vulnerable groups. In this study, we examined protective and risk factors related to schooling from the perspective of students with learning disabilities (LD) and/or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary School Students
Yaoying Xu; Laura Kuti – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
The majority of students with exceptional needs receive most of their formal education in general education or inclusive classrooms. These students often need a variety of accommodations to ensure their success with the general education curriculum. The purpose of this article is to explore accommodation approaches and strategies for teaching…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Special Education, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities)