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S. Blair Payne; Elizabeth Swanson – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
Executive functions, which begin developing in early childhood, are necessary for the tasks of daily life, such as decision making and planning. Despite their early development, often without teaching, many teens with disabilities need explicit instruction to acquire and apply executive functions each day. Gaps in executive functions directly…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Adolescents, Disabilities, Transitional Programs
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, US Department of Education, 2025
The U.S. Department of Education (Department) is committed to ensuring that students and youth with disabilities are held to high expectations and have the resources and supports needed to expand their learning opportunities and prepare them for success in postsecondary education and competitive integrated employment (CIE). In the 2019-2020…
Descriptors: Coordination, Transitional Programs, Access to Education, Postsecondary Education
Ryan, Claire; Shaver, Debra; Garberoglio, Carrie Lou; Newman, Lynn A. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2021
Successful social engagement is one of many important outcomes for deaf youth as they transition from high school to adult life. This study examined the effect of self-advocacy and social/life skill trainings in secondary school settings on social engagement after high school using propensity score modeling and data from the large-scale and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Self Advocacy
Kasowicz, Mandy – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Parenting is a complicated journey that never ends for those who raise children with special needs. Families need to make several difficult decisions about life after high school, and they are often left alone to navigate those choices. Decisions on life after high school are one of several choices families are left to navigate. This qualitative…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Parent Child Relationship, Decision Making, Disabilities
Alana Sejdic – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The IDEA mandates transition planning in Individualized Education Programs (IEP) for disabled students, who are now enrolling in postsecondary education programs at higher rates than ever before. Despite this, disabled students experience significantly worse post-school outcomes than their non-disabled peers. The purpose of this mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Federal Legislation, Students with Disabilities
Xu, Tianxi; Stancliffe, Roger J. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2019
Background: Very few studies have evaluated the performance of transition to work (TTW) service providers after the TTW program was implemented in New South Wales, Australia since 2005. This paper examines employment outcomes achieved by 35 TTW service providers in Sydney. Method: Descriptive statistics and chi-square were used to analyse the TTW…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Program Effectiveness, Performance, Employment Level
Skye L. McDonald – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Study One Abstract, Introduction: Individuals with disabilities (IWDs) struggle to access health services that they need which ultimately leads to poorer overall health outcomes and health disparities. IWDs often rely on surrogate decision-makers, or caregivers, to help them make important health decisions. Therefore, the aims of the current study…
Descriptors: Caregiver Role, Access to Health Care, Disabilities, Health Services
Trainor, Audrey A.; Newman, Lynn; Garcia, Elisa; Woodley, Heather H.; Traxler, Rachel Elizabeth; Deschene, D. Nicole – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2019
Transition planning is particularly important for dually identified English learners with disabilities, who frequently face additional challenges to postsecondary education success. This study examined postschool expectations, transition planning experiences, and supports of a nationally representative sample of English learners with disabilities,…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Transitional Programs, Educational Planning, English Language Learners
Hoover, Ariel – American Secondary Education, 2016
Community activities can be an important part of the transition to adulthood, but many students with disabilities miss those experiences because they are not offered in their community or high school. This lack of opportunities in schools may account for the discrepancy that is found after high school graduation between the employment rates of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Transitional Programs, Service Learning, Summer Programs
Fisk, Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Research indicates that the trend of students with disabilities choosing to attend college is continually increasing. However, research also suggests that this population may be ill prepared to meet the increased academic demands and level of independence needed at the college level. Research in the field indicates that high schools may not be…
Descriptors: Disabilities, College Readiness, High Schools, School Role
Hicks, Simone B. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this qualitative case study is to explore African American parental involvement of students with disabilities during transition planning in urban high schools. Through an explanatory case study the author seeks to gain a better understanding of parental involvement during the transition process in preparation for employment or…
Descriptors: African Americans, Parent Participation, Disabilities, African American Students
Lind, John; Poppen, Marcus; Murray, Christopher – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2017
Positive teacher-student relationships provide adolescents with disabilities the confidence to explore new challenges in and out of the classroom. Goal-setting and self-determination skills have been consistently shown to promote healthy transition adjustment among students with disabilities. Despite the growing awareness of the importance of…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Self Determination, Adolescents, Emotional Disturbances
Scheef, Andrew R.; Hollingshead, Aleksandra; Voss, Cory S. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2019
The use of peer support arrangements can be an effective strategy to improve educational services for students with disabilities, including those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). When developing peer support arrangements, secondary teachers should consider aligning these services with evidence-based predictors of positive postschool outcomes…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Peer Relationship, Disabilities, Autism
Joshi, Gauri S.; Bouck, Emily C. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2017
Given the history of poor postschool outcomes for students with disabilities, researchers repeatedly sought to demonstrate the links between predictor variables and postschool outcomes for students with disabilities. This secondary data analysis used the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 to examine the relationship between postsecondary…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Correlation, Transitional Programs, Learning Disabilities
Thomas, Jennifer – National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth, 2017
The Youth Action Council on Transition (YouthACT) is a national initiative to get more youth with disabilities and their allies involved as leaders who partner with adults and organizations to improve opportunities for youth to succeed in life. "Transition" is the process and period of change that youth go through to become adults.…
Descriptors: High School Students, Special Needs Students, Transitional Programs, Developmental Studies Programs