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Susan Larson Etscheidt; David Hernandez-Saca; Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides – Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2024
Despite extensive transition provisions in the U.S. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the post-school outcomes for students with disabilities continue to be disappointing. The IDEA designated those transition provisions as priority targets for federal and state compliance monitoring to assure that schools are attaining the goal…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Students with Disabilities, Equal Education
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Leslie Ann Bross; Stephanie L. Craig – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework can be applied to a variety of instructional contexts and activities, and individualized education program (IEP) meetings are one such context. The primary principle of the framework is to provide teachers with guidelines for designing and implementing instruction that can be adapted to meet the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Individualized Education Programs, Educational Principles, Meetings
Lynne Graziano; Nick Lee – Bellwether, 2024
Young people need clear pathways to navigate from K-12 education into careers that align with their interests, strengths, and life goals. But they often lack the information, support, and access to choose and complete postsecondary pathways that are right for them. The federal government can play an important role in bridging this gap, by…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Guided Pathways, Government School Relationship, Career Development
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Talapatra, Devadrita; Snider, Laurel A. – Contemporary School Psychology, 2022
Students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are incredibly vulnerable to poor post-school outcomes. Two mandates, the Higher Education Opportunity Act and Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, have emerged that may provide avenues to counter the discrepancy between the desire for career and college paths and actualization…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Federal Legislation, Transitional Programs
Migliore, Alberto; Butterworth, John – Institute for Community Inclusion, 2020
The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) of 2014 requires that vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies set aside at least 15% of their federal VR services grant funds to assist students with disabilities. These students are entitled to receiving pre-employment transition services (Pre-ETS). Pre-ETS include job exploration counseling,…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Vocational Rehabilitation, Transitional Programs
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Scheef, Andrew R.; McKnight-Lizotte, Michelle – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2022
In addition to supporting the academic goals of students with learning disabilities, secondary special education teachers are tasked with providing services designed to improve post-school outcomes. To improve these offerings, special education teachers should ensure collaboration with vocational rehabilitation (VR) counselors during the…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Vocational Rehabilitation, Transitional Programs
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Poppen, Marcus; Alverson, Charlotte Y. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2018
This chapter examines legislative actions throughout the past century that have influenced education and employment for individuals with disabilities while discussing ways that these actions reflect the broader social, political and economic goals of the American education system, and implications for individuals with disabilities who participate…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Federal Legislation
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Bell, Barbara – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2017
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) spends nearly $12 billion annually on education benefits (VA, 2016). Veterans are showing up on campus in ever increasing numbers. While recruiting veterans makes sense from an enrollment management perspective, as most veterans come to campus with financial aid, how well prepared is higher education to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Veterans, Transitional Programs, Federal Legislation
Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families, 2019
The Department Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) is a new cabinet level agency focused on the well-being of children. The vision is to ensure that "Washington state's children and youth grow up safe and healthy-thriving physically, emotionally and academically, nurtured by family and community." (House Bill 1661) DCYF serves as the…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, State Programs, Federal State Relationship
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Ochoa, Theresa A.; Datchi, Corinne C.; Weller, Nicole M.; Northcutt Bohmert, Miriam; Grubbs, Derek – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2021
National rates of juvenile incarceration show that about 33% of the population in correctional confinement has disabilities such as behavioral disorders or specific learning disabilities. All students identified under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) as having a disability are entitled to special education and…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Behavior Disorders
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Horn, Annemarie L.; Bean, Kimberly M.; Layden, Selena J.; Terpstra, Judith E.; Holloway, Karen C. – School-University Partnerships, 2020
Transitioning from high school to the next phase of life can be especially challenging for youth with intellectual and other developmental disabilities (IDD). Federal mandates are in place to provide individualized transition services to students with disabilities up to age 22; however, there is variability in the location of service delivery. A…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Postsecondary Education, Partnerships in Education
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Massa-Carroll, Idalia – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2018
The Transition Planning Inventory-Second Edition (TPI-2) is an instrument to help plan the postsecondary transition of students who are benefiting from special education (SPED) services. It aims to identify the strengths, needs, and interests of students with disabilities. It is also a tool to support school systems to comply with the U.S. federal…
Descriptors: Individualized Transition Plans, Special Education, Disabilities, Educational Legislation
Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families, 2018
Under the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA), the Interagency Coordinating Council (ICC) of each jurisdiction that receives funds under Part C of the IDEA must prepare and submit to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education and to the Governor of its jurisdiction an annual report on the status of the early intervention programs for…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Infants, Toddlers, Disabilities
Odom, Samuel L.; Hall, Laura J.; Morin, Kristi L.; Kraemer, Bonnie R.; Hume, Kara A.; McIntyre, Nancy S.; Nowell, Sallie W.; Steinbrenner, Jessica R.; Tomaszewski, Brianne; Sam, Ann M.; DaWalt, Leann – Grantee Submission, 2021
Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) III, the purpose of this commentary is to describe school-based and school-relevant interventions and instructional approaches for children and youth with autism that have been developed and employed during that time period. The commentary begins with a brief…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intervention, Teaching Methods
Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families, 2019
The Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) is the State Lead Agency for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Part C program for Washington State. Within DCFY, the Part C programmatic home is the Early Support for Infants and Toddlers (ESIT) program. During Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2017 (July 1, 2017-June 30, 2018),…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Disabilities, Early Intervention
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