A study examined the effectiveness of coworker instruction, a natural support strategy, in improving the integration of four adolescents with disabilities transitioning into a competitive-employment setting. Results indicated the intervention strategy increased the social integration of the students with disabilities. (Author/CR)

Describes the Peer-Assisted Learning System (PALS) program at Merced High School. PALS was designed to facilitate the transition of disabled students returning to their home schools by pairing them with peers who served as instructors, friends, advocates, and decision makers in several arenas of school life. (Author/MKA)

This article offers guidelines to help agencies develop and write interagency agreements covering the transition of young children with disabilities from early intervention programs to public special education services. Guidelines cover the content and process of writing an agreement and finalizing, signing, and monitoring the agreement. Sample…

Outlines implications of the Workforce Investment Partnership Act of 1998 for transition policies in prior legislation, coordination of rehabilitation services at state and local levels, and eligibility criteria. Presents untested assumptions and policy analysis questions to guide reconfiguration of vocational rehabilitation programs. (SK)

A pre-test post-test control group design examined the effects of extending transition services beyond graduation on the employment earnings of vocational students (N=62) with disabilities. Youth receiving the extended services had higher earnings and were more likely to be employed or in a training program at 2- and 5-year follow-up. (Contains…

This report has been provided to the Legislature on an annual basis since 2000 when the legislature amended the language of G.L. c.71B to align Massachusetts special education terminology with the federal "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act" ("IDEA"). The Department is required to submit an annual report on compliance…

This is the 36th Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act," 2014. Section 664(d) of the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act" ("IDEA") (P.L. 108-446), as reauthorized in 2004, requires that the Department of Education report annually on the progress…

This is the 33rd Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act," 2011. Section 664(d) of the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act" ("IDEA"), as reauthorized in 2004, requires that the Department of Education report annually on the progress made toward the…

This is the 32nd Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 2010. Section 664(d) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) (P.L. 108-446), as reauthorized in 2004, requires that the Department of Education report annually on the progress made toward the provision of a free…

The 34th Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act," 2012 describes our nation's progress in: (1) providing a free appropriate public education (FAPE) for all children with disabilities; (2) ensuring that the rights of children with disabilities and their parents are protected;…

The 35th Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act," 2013 describes the nation's progress in (1) providing a free appropriate public education (FAPE) for all children with disabilities, (2) ensuring that the rights of children with disabilities and their parents are protected, (3)…

The National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities (NDPC-SD) was assigned the task of compiling, analyzing and summarizing the data for Indicator 2--Dropout--from the FFY 2008 Annual Performance Reports (APRs) and the revised State Performance Plans (SPPs), which were submitted to the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)…

This is the last volume of a 10-volume annotated bibliography documenting the literature in the field of secondary special education and transitional services. The 179 documents cited and abstracted include journal articles, conference proceedings, project reports and products, videocassette recordings, presentations, pamphlets, dissertations,…

These four issues discuss issues in the education of children with disabilities. The Spring 1992 issues focuses on developing transition systems. Articles include: "Vocational Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Counseling, and Transition: Service Delivery and Professional Issues" (Edna M. Szymanski et al.); "Personnel Preparation To…

This packet, part of Project STEPS (Sequenced Transition to Education in the Public Schools), is intended to aid local agencies in forming local interagency councils and is based on experiences in Kentucky since 1983 in the development of Preschool Interagency Planning Councils (PIPCs). Section 1 provides an overview of the PIPC network, a group…