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When Will Our Values Finally Result in the Creation of New Pathways for Change--Change that We Can Believe In?
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Rusch, Frank R.; Wolfe, Pamela – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), 2008
Despite efforts over the past several decades to improve the delivery of transition services for youth with disabilities, outcomes continue to be unacceptably dismal for most youth, including high rates of unemployment, residential independence, and financial dependence, concurrent with low rates of enrollment in college or other postsecondary…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, High Schools, Employment, Transitional Programs
Post-Secondary Education and Transition Services for Students Ages 18-21 with Significant Disabilities.
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Neubert, Debra A.; Moon, M. Sherril; Grigal, Meg – Focus on Exceptional Children, 2002
This article first differentiates educational and transitional services for students with significant disabilities, ages 18-21, and then reviews options for age-appropriate educational and transition experiences for this population. These include: (1) programs that serve public school students on college campuses and in community settings and (2)…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Education Work Relationship, High Schools
The 1986 Act: Opportunities Missed.
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Madden, Phil – British Journal of Special Education, 1993
This paper outlines the arrangements for assessing school leavers under Sections 5 and 6 of Great Britain's Disabled Persons Act, summarizes the results of research in Avon (England) following the lives of 50 people with severe learning difficulties just before and after they left school. Presents a model for individual and strategic planning to…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Educational Legislation
Principles of Shared Responsibility.
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Steere, Daniel E.; And Others – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1990
This article outlines six values that should form the basis of transdisciplinary team alliance in planning transition from school to integrated employment for students with severe disabilities. The values are organized into principles of shared responsibility, and recommendations are provided for their implementation. (JDD)
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Planning, Educational Policy, Educational Principles
Integrating Preference Assessment within the Transition Process To Create Meaningful School-to-Life Outcomes.
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Lohrmann-O'Rourke, Sharon; Gomez, Ophelia – Exceptionality, 2001
This article discusses the inclusion of systematic preference assessment within transitional planning as a way to accurately interpret the preferences of students who use limited symbolic or nonsymbolic communication means. By using person-centered planning as a framework, it illustrates how to embed preference assessment within transitional…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Decision Making, Education Work Relationship, Evaluation Methods
Vocational Rehabilitation: Its Relationship to Vocational Education. Occasional Paper No. 120.
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Melia, Richard P. – 1986
Although disabled students need the same comprehensive assistance in making the transition from school to work as their nondisabled counterparts, most disabled youth, and particulary those with severe disabilities, do not receive adequate assistance in this area. This situation can be remedied by approaching the transition to employment as a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs