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Grigal, Meg; Hart, Debra; Migliore, Alberto – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 2011
This article describes a secondary analysis of variables from the National Longitudinal Transition Survey 2 (NLTS-2) database. Specifically, students with intellectual disability (ID) were compared to students with other disabilities regarding post-school transition goals listed on their IEPs/Transition Plans, contacts/referrals made to outside…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Supported Employment, Mental Retardation, Vocational Rehabilitation
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McKinney, Lorella; Okeafor, Karen – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1984
"Project Transition," a model for providing support to handicapped secondary and postsecondary vocational students during their transition from school to work, is described. The model, which builds on community resources, includes a packet of printed materials. (CL)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Postsecondary Education, Secondary Education
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Siegel, Shepherd; And Others – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1989
The article describes the Community Vocational Training program, a transition program that trains and places high school seniors with mild handicaps in permanent employment and postsecondary schools. Considered are theoretical foundations, recruitment, on the job experiences, the employment skills workshop, staff roles, and outcomes. (DB)
Descriptors: Community Programs, High Schools, Mild Disabilities, Placement
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DeStefano, Lizanne; Hasazi, Susan; Trach, John – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1997
Describes an attempt to evaluate the Transition Systems Change Initiative despite geographically dispersed program sites and different program goals, activities, and impacts. The design focused on common impacts and unique accomplishments of the projects by making maximum use of existing data. Project directors were involved in planning,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
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Powers, Laurie E.; Turner, Alison; Westwood, Dean; Matuszewski, Jeanne; Wilson, Roxanne; Phillips, Amy – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 2001
A study investigated the efficacy of an intervention model to promote student involvement in transition planning. The intervention included coaching youth in student-directed planning skills to achieve transition goals, peer-based mentorship and parent support, and in-service education for staff. Participants demonstrated significant increases in…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Inservice Teacher Education, Parent Role, Peer Teaching
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Wehman, Paul; And Others – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1989
The article presents an interim report on the progress of 39 mentally retarded students in a supported competitive employment training program implemented in 5 school systems and 3 geographical areas of Virginia. Among findings were that 74 percent of the students remained in their jobs longer than 6 months. (DB)
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs, Followup Studies, High Schools
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Goldstein, Marjorie T. – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1988
The article describes Project LINK, at William Paterson College of New Jersey, which provides training services to mildly handicapped young adults, links local education agencies and postsecondary service provider agencies, and aims to integrate interagency and college-based components into a broad transition model. (DB)
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, College School Cooperation, College Students, Education Work Relationship
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Cheney, Douglas; Hagner, David; Malloy, Joanne; Cormier, Gail M.; Bernstein, Steve – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1998
Reports initial results of Project RENEW, a three-year demonstration project providing comprehensive coordination of transition services for youth and young adults with emotional disturbances. Results after 18 months, for 16 participants, indicated that 15 were successfully employed, 11 had successfully completed their educational programs, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship, Emotional Disturbances
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Steere, Daniel E.; And Others – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1990
A transition planning process that focuses on quality-of-life outcomes is presented. The process, which views employment not as an outcome but as a vehicle for the attainment of quality of life, involves six steps: orientation, personal profile development, identification of employment outcomes, measurement system, compatibility process, and…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment, High Schools, Models
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Engelbrecht, Petra; Howell, Colleen; Bassett, Diane – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 2002
This paper describes the problems that individuals with disabilities in South Africa have experienced in accessing educational and support services in the transition from school to work. It outlines needed changes, including making a paradigm shift, developing a new policy and legislative framework, building an inclusive education system and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
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Lindsey, Pamela; Blalock, Ginger – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1993
This article describes a collaborative project of New Mexico's State Vocational Education Division, Department of Special Education, and Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and the University of New Mexico to develop a transition to work process for students with disabilities at three rural sites. The article describes administrative support,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
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Miller, Robert J.; And Others – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1990
A planning procedure was developed to increase opportunities for secondary special education students to be referred to and receive appropriate community services after graduation. The procedure requires interagency cooperation and focuses on vocational placement, postsecondary education, living arrangements, mobility, and financial planning.…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
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D'Alonzo, Bruno; And Others – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1988
The article describes Project M.E.A.L.(Model for Employment and Adult Living) in Phoenix, Arizona, designed to move unemployed young learning disabled adults recently out of school to employment and community living. Training and support services link clients with available community training or education programs and sustained employment in…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Daily Living Skills, Demonstration Programs, Employment Potential
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Taymans, Juliana M.; DeFur, Sharon Hall – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1994
This article presents a framework for preservice or inservice development of transition personnel. The framework focuses on working with others, knowledge of agencies and influencing systems, development of individualized services, professionalism, job training and support, assessment, administrative functions, philosophical considerations, career…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Inservice Teacher Education
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Benz, Michael R.; And Others – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1995
This article describes service outcomes for people with disabilities, achieved by local Oregon communities during the past five years as they have implemented a community capacity building model called the Community Transition Team Model. Principles of successful programs included active participation of diverse stakeholders, change viewed as a…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Change Strategies, Community Programs, Disabilities
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