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Bruck, Susan; Webster, Amanda A.; Clark, Trevor – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2022
Students on the autism spectrum often require support to navigate transitions from one educational setting to another. This study examined stakeholder perceptions about the transition supports that educators employ to support students on the autism spectrum to transition from one school setting to another. A non-matched Australia-wide sample of…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Students with Disabilities, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Martin, Tara; Dixon, Roselyn; Verenikina, Irina; Costley, Debra – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2021
Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are increasingly being educated in mainstream classroom environments. Commonly students commence their education in a segregated setting, transitioning to mainstream education after a process of skills development. For each student, transition is a unique and complex process. In NSW Australia, Autism…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Students with Disabilities, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Cumming, Therese M.; Strnadová, Iva – Australasian Journal of Special Education, 2017
The implementation of a transition model, the flexible integration model, was investigated in a school in Sydney, Australia, using an exploratory single case study design (Rowley, 2002). It is a person-centred model designed to assist students in transitioning from a special school for students with emotional and behavioural disabilities to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Mainstreaming, Transitional Programs
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Gunasekera, Sashya; Houghton, Stephen; Glasgow, Kenneth; Boyle, Christopher – Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2014
Setting clear achievable goals that enhance reputational status has been shown to direct the energies of adolescents into socially conforming or non-conforming activities. It appears to be the case that following transition from Intensive English Centres (IECs) into mainstream schooling, students from African refugee backgrounds experience…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Social Behavior, Goal Orientation
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Keane, Elaine; Aldridge, Fiona Jane; Costley, Debra; Clark, Trevor – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2012
Students with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are increasingly being educated within mainstream schools. While there is often an assumption that students with ASD who are academically capable will succeed in an inclusive educational placement, previous research has indicated that this is not always the case. Indeed, it seems that students with…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Adolescents, Graduates, Autism
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Taylor, Anthea Jo – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2011
Concern that too many Australian children, particularly Indigenous children, are not ready to start school has spurred a series of changes to the pre-school sector. Included among these changes are nationwide mass surveying and the introduction of a unified curriculum framework together with moves towards standardised entry assessment. Focusing on…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, School Readiness, Articulation (Education)
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Roberts, Jacqueline M. A.; Keane, Elaine; Clark, Trevor R. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2008
The Autism Spectrum Australia Satellite Class Project features small specialist classes for students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) within general education schools. The program incorporates individual education goals within timetable based on the general school curricula, in conjunction with a schedule of integrated activities. The aim of…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Integrated Activities, Autism
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. – 1997
This report presents findings of a 3-year study (1994-1997) of post-compulsory educational opportunities for adolescents and adults with disabilities in 10 European countries (Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom), Australia, and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Quebec. It…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Adults, Ancillary School Services
Ward, James, Ed.; And Others – 1987
This set of papers deals with the integration and maintenance of disabled children in regular Australian classrooms and the mounting pressure on teachers to provide effective instruction for an increasingly broad range of ability groups. Part I is concerned with theoretical issues and research on the integration of children with special learning…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Classification, Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction
Jackson, Ann, Ed.; Jones, David, Ed. – 2000
This document contains 43 papers from a conference on researching inclusion. The following are among the papers included: "Include Me Out: Critique and Contradiction in Thinking about Social Exclusion and Lifelong Learning" (Paul Armstrong); "The Linking of Work and Education To Enable Social Inclusion" (Dave Beck);…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions), Admission Criteria