Moving into Adulthood for Youth with Disabilities and Serious Health Concerns

نویسندگان

  • Robert Blum
  • Patience Haydock
  • Leslie Gallay
  • Wayne Osgood
  • E. Michael Foster
  • Constance Flanagan
چکیده

For families with youth who have disabling conditions, the end of high school coincides with a number of changes for which they may be unprepared: school to work, home to independent living, pediatric to adult health care, among others. In their chapters in On Your Own without a Net: The Transition to Adulthood for Vulnerable Populations, edited by D. Wayne Osgood, E. Michael Foster, Constance Flanagan, and Gretchen Ruth (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press), Robert Blum, and Patience Haydock White and Leslie Gallay examine the needs of youth with disabilities and other serious health issues as they leave childhood for adulthood. This brief summarizes those findings.

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تاریخ انتشار 2005