Best Practices in Transition Programs
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Although the Individuals Education Act (IDEA, 1990; 1997) has provided a national mandate to help high school students with disabilities grow into independent adults, youth with emotional and behavioral difficulties continue to experience considerable problems transitioning into adulthood. Their adjustment into socially acceptable adult roles has been examined in a number of follow-up and follow-along studies. These studies consistently show that many of these young people achieve only a few of the critical postschool outcomes identified in the research literature:
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تاریخ انتشار 2003