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Getting Everyone Involved: Identifying Transition Opportunities for Youth with Severe Disabilities
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Swedeen, Beth L.; Carter, Erik W.; Molfenter, Nancy – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2010
The general education curriculum comprises more than just the academic courses students take. The wide range of extracurricular clubs, sports teams, performing arts programs, student government positions, career development activities, service-learning projects, and other school-sponsored activities offered in middle and high schools provide a…
Descriptors: Multiple Disabilities, Mental Retardation, Transitional Programs, Severe Disabilities
Student Involvement in Transition Planning: Unheard Voices.
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Thoma, Colleen A.; Rogan, Pat; Baker, Steven R. – Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 2001
A study of eight students with moderate to severe disabilities investigated the nature of their involvement in transition planning during their final year of high school. Teachers and parents made little investment in preparing students for their transition planning meetings, and none were active participants with designated roles. (Contains…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Mental Retardation, Parent Teacher Conferences, Secondary Education
Exploring Perspectives on Transition of Youth with Disabilities: Voices of Young Adults, Parents, and Professionals.
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Cooney, Bernard F. – Mental Retardation, 2002
Qualitative research was used to examine transition experiences of 9 young adults with severe disabilities during their last year of high school along with their parents and professionals. Students were remarkably articulate about plans following graduation but had few opportunities to fulfill them meaningfully. Differing perspectives of parents…
Descriptors: High Schools, Mental Retardation, Parent Attitudes, Qualitative Research
Ramps Are Not Enough: The Movement of Children with Mental Retardation from Institutional to Community-Based Care.
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Mallory, Bruce L.; Herrick, Susan C. – 1986
The effects of deinstitutionalization on 110 severely to profoundly mentally retarded and 68 moderately to severely retarded children drawn from Laconia State School in New Hampshire were examined. Study objectives were to determine: (1) educational and residential consequences of deinstitutionalization; (2) the stability of community placements;…
Descriptors: Children, Community Programs, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Elementary Secondary Education
Liberty High School Transition Project: Model Process for Assimilating School, Community, Business, Government and Service Groups of the Least Restrictive Environment for Nondisabled and Disabled.
Grimes, Michael K. – 1988
The panel presentation traces the development of and describes the operation of a Brentwood (California) project to prepare approximately 75 severely disabled individuals, ages 12-22, to function in the least restrictive recreation/leisure, vocational, and general community environments. Transition Steering Committee developed such project…
Descriptors: Building Design, Community Involvement, Demography, Education Work Relationship
[Supplements for Programs for Children with Exceptionalities.]
Kansas State Board of Education, Topeka. – 1990
This compilation includes 14 supplements to the Kansas state plan for education, all relating to various aspects of special education. Several of the supplements offer guidelines for specific age groups or conditions, providing information on definitions, screening and identification, curriculum and instruction, administrative structures, related…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Deaf Blind, Disabilities, Early Intervention