Transition Across Disabilities and Cultures

1. Transition Across Disabilities and Cultures

2. Group Focus • While school-to-work transition follows a well-determined path (if not one yet based in evidence), group differences can color the meaning and change the measure of our interventions. Service must be flexible enough to adapt to these differences. Culture and disability stand out as two fundamental schemas that mediate the meaning (individually and in interaction) of work, education, transition, and success in the lives of student /clients and their communities. How does evaluation change across disability types and cultural contexts such that best practice in transition is properly served?

3. Challenges

4. Disability Types

5. Intellectual Disabilities

6. Autism and ASD

7. Learning Disabilities

8. Assessments

11. Best practices

13. Conclusion

14. References