TRANSITION PLANNING FOR STUDENTS AND PARENTS

本提案的目的是开发一种录像带和笔记本组织者，作为残疾学生及其家庭的教育干预措施，以帮助他们从14岁开始从学校过渡到社区生活的规划过程。这两种干预措施将由残疾学生、残疾学生家长和专业人员组成的不同研究小组进行定性和定量测试。第二阶段的主要研究目标是确定教育干预（录像带和路线图笔记本/组织者）是否影响学生对过渡计划、采用创新、家庭压力和学生从学校过渡到成人生活的计划的态度。许多残疾学生和家长不知道该计划中可能包括哪些服务，也不知道法律规定学校系统必须提供哪些服务。建议的干预措施将通过开发定量研究的技能培训和教育项目产品来帮助满足这一关键的社会需求，以补充残疾人的功能，社会和适应能力。拟议的商业应用：拟议的录像带和笔记本干预措施将向超过4200万有残疾学生的家庭、学校系统、社区服务组织、大学和教育专业人员销售。State of The Art的录像带《正常生活》和《教育彼得》的成功发行，证明了残疾人和包容项目的市场，也让我们相信，过渡计划项目的市场。由于法律要求学区制定过渡计划，我们相信学校会将这些材料视为向家庭介绍这一主题并鼓励他们参与这一过程的绝佳方式。

The purpose of this proposal is to develop a videotape and notebook organizer as educational interventions for students with disabilities and their families to aid in transition planning process from school to community life starting at age 14 and. Both interventions will be qualitatively and quantitatively tested with diverse research groups composed of students with disabilities, parents of students with disabilities, and professionals. The primary research goal of Phase II is to determine if the educational interventions (videotape and Roadmaps notebook/organizer) affect attitudes towards transition planing, adoption of the innovation, family stress, and planning for a students's transition from school to adult life. Many students with disabilities and parents are unaware of what services may be included in the plan and what the school system must provide by law. The proposed interventions will help to fulfill this critical social need by developing the quantitatively researched skill training and education program products that supplement the functional, social, and adaptive abilities of individuals who are disabled. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: The proposed videotape and notebook interventions will be marketed to an audience of over 42 million families with students with disabilities, schools systems, community service organizations, Universities, and education professionals. The successful distribution of State of the Art's videotapes, Regular Lives and Educating Peter, proves that there is a market for programs on disability and inclusion and leads us to believe that there is a market for a program on transition planning. Because schools districts are required by law to plan for transition, we are confident that schools will see these materials as an excellent way to introduce the topic to families and to encourage their involvement in the process.