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Teachers’ Beliefs About the Benefits of and Barriers to School and Community WBLEs

Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 57-70, February 2025.
Work-based learning experiences (WBLEs) provide students with opportunities to learn about careers and gain work skills required for post-school employment. WBLEs may be especially important for students with extensive support needs (ESN) who often ...

Collaborative Action Research with Diverse Stakeholders: Building the Disability Champions Mentoring Network

Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 21-33, February 2025.
Historically based systemic oppressions have exacerbated disparities in post-school outcomes among youth with disabilities transitioning to adulthood. Using a community action research (CAR) approach, the Disability Champions Mentoring Network was founded ...

Race and Gender Representation in College and Career Readiness Research for Students With Emotional Behavioral Disorders

Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 47-56, February 2025.
The purpose of this review was to investigate the extent to which students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) are adequately represented in and benefiting from college and career readiness (CCR) intervention research across race and gender ...

Behavioral Skills Training to Teach Self-Instruction of Video Activity Schedules for Vocational Skills

Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 34-46, February 2025.
This study evaluated the effects of behavior skills training (BST) as a means to acquire and generalize self-instruction behaviors using video activity schedules (VidAS) loaded on an iPod Touch for four U.S. high school students with intellectual ...

A Systematic Review of the Research: The Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction Within MTSS

Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 6-20, February 2025.
Self-determination is a predictor of postschool success. The importance of self-determination instruction for students with and without disabilities is increasingly being recognized. The Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction (SDLMI) has been ...

Providers’ Perceptions of the Collaborative Challenges and Assistance Provided to Families in Pre-Employment Transition Services

Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, Ahead of Print.
Family involvement in transition planning has been associated with improved outcomes for youth with disabilities. However, limited research exists on providers’ in-depth views regarding family–professional collaborations in pre-employment transition ...

Perspectives of Hispanic Mothers on Social Support From Key Transition Stakeholders

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Parent involvement is foundational to the development of Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) for students with disabilities, including the transition component of the IEP. However, many culturally and linguistically diverse parents, including ...

Empowering Young Adults With Significant Disabilities to Learn New Employment Skills Through Self-Directed Video-Based Instruction

Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, Ahead of Print.
Video-based instruction (VBI) is an effective means to teach employment skills to young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Within the category of VBI, video prompting (VP) is well-suited to teach multistep routines, and video ...

Transitioning to Adult Life for Students With Intellectual Disability in Saudi Arabia: A Systematic Literature Review

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Although transition services for individuals with intellectual disability (ID) in Saudi Arabia are required by special education law and regulations, no literature synthesizes peer-reviewed studies focused on transition services for individuals with ID in ...

Collaboration Around Transition for Students With Visual Impairments: A Sequential Explanatory Mixed Methods Study

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In this explanatory mixed method study, we surveyed 79 special educators and teachers of students with visual impairments who worked with at least one transition-aged youth with a visual impairment (VI). Following the survey, we interviewed a smaller ...

Special Education Teachers’ Perspectives on Preparing Students With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities for College

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As more opportunities for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) to attend college emerge, it is important for secondary special education teachers to be knowledgeable about how to prepare students with IDD for college. We ...

Culturally Responsive/Sustaining Transition for At-Promise Youth

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At-promise students with disabilities benefit when educators implement culturally responsive/sustaining postsecondary transition practices. Yet, many educators lack the training and resources necessary to support culturally, ethnically, economically, and ...

The Impact of Pre-Employment Transition and Individualized Vocational Rehabilitation Services on Employment Outcomes for Youth With Disabilities

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Despite increased attention by policymakers to improve postsecondary employment outcomes, rates of entry into the competitive workforce for transition-age youth with disabilities continue to lag behind their peers without disabilities. The passing of the ...

A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Admissions Process and Criteria for Inclusive Postsecondary Education Programs

Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, Ahead of Print.
The exponential growth of inclusive postsecondary education (IPSE) programs in the United States has reshaped transition pathways for many young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). However, limited research pertains to the ...

Navigating Challenges to Work-Based Learning Experiences: Responses From Special Educators

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A host of challenges have been associated with providing work-based learning experiences (WBLEs) for students with disabilities; however, little is known about how special education teachers navigate or overcome these challenges. The purpose of this ...

Family Service Use and Outcomes for Youth With Disabilities

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Families of youth with disabilities often access services to promote youth’s transitions to adulthood. Such services can be oriented toward the youth or family. Using descriptive statistics and regression modeling of survey and administrative data, we ...

Reaching the Top of Data Mountain: Postsecondary Students With Disabilities Use Data to Improve Fluency

Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, Ahead of Print.
Intervention studies focused on improving reading outcomes are scarce for postsecondary students with disabilities. Historically, comprehensive transition and postsecondary education programs (CTPs) for students with disabilities focused on employment, ...

Intricate Interplay Among Family Socioeconomic Status, Disability, and College Completion in the Transition to Adulthood

Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, Ahead of Print.
College degree completion serves as one of the critical milestones for a successful transition to adulthood. This study analyzed a weighted sample from the restricted data of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to unravel the intricate ...

Special Education Teachers’ Practices in Preparing Students With Disabilities for Postsecondary Education in Saudi Arabia

Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, Ahead of Print.
This study explored how special education teachers (SETs) in public secondary schools in Saudi Arabia prepare students with disabilities (SWDs) for postsecondary education institutions. A literature review of best practices and predictors of secondary ...
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