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Assessing Transition Service for Handicapped Youth: A Cooperative Interagency Approach.
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Stodden, Robert A.; Boone, Rosalie – Exceptional Children, 1987
The article presents a cooperative interagency approach for assessing effectiveness of programs and services to facilitate the transition of handicapped students from school to adult community living. Features of the model include cooperative planning at the policy level, implementation level, and direct service level; and collaboration by state…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Decision Making, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
The School and Community Partnership: Planning Transition for Students with Severe Handicaps.
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Peters, Joyce M.; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1987
The Teaching Research Transition Planning Project (Oregon) is implementing and evaluating the development of school/community teams to facilitate transition of handicapped students into the community. Preliminary evaluation results support the value of an outside stimulus to encourage collaboration, locally generated plans, and policy decision…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Decision Making, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
Mediation as a Transition Process: The Impact on Postschool Employment Outcomes.
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Devlieger, Patrick J.; Trach, John S. – Exceptional Children, 1999
This study used ethnographic methodology to evaluate the impact of mediation on transition outcomes of six persons with mild mental retardation. Strategies used by focal persons, their parents, and agencies/schools are discussed in relation to (1) empowerment and self-determination, (2) social dimensions of transition planning and "balanced…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Education Work Relationship, Educational Planning, Empowerment