Website: The Autism Transition Handbook
This website assists individuals with autism spectrum disorders and their families by providing access to comprehensive information on the transition to adulthood.
Website: Do2learn
Do2learn provides social skills and behavioral regulation activities and guidance, learning songs and games, communication cards, academic material, and transition guides for employment and life skills.
Website: Chapel Haven
This organization provides an array of lifelong individualized support services for adults on the autism spectrum and those with developmental and social disabilities.
Guide: Work Without Limits: School Days to Pay Days
This booklet is designed to help families of young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities get started with the school-to-work transition process.
Research Article: Social Integration in Employment Settings: Application of Intergroup Contact Theory
This study used a survey of 106 employment specialists to test the ability of intergroup contact theory to explain social integration outcomes of employees with disabilities.
Research Article: Factors Associated With the Early Work Experiences of Adolescents With Severe Disabilities
The early work experiences of a nationally representative sample of youth with severe disabilities (i.e., intellectual disabilities, autism, multiple disabilities) were examined.
Research Article: Transition Planning for Students With Intellectual Disability, Autism, or Other Disabilities: Data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2
To compare the status of transition planning for students with intellectual disability, autism, or other disabilities, we used data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2, a federally funded, national study of the secondary and postschool experiences of students with disabilities.
Research Article: Implementation of Job Development Practices
We investigated the extent to which employment consultants implemented job development practices recommended in the literature when assisting job seekers with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
Research Article: Doing Nothing: Adults With Disabilities With No Daily Activities and Their Siblings
The authors examined predictors of inactivity in individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, as well as how inactivity related to their sibling’s well-being and the sibling relationship.
Research Article: Assessing motivation for work in people with developmental disabilities
Factors that might influence motivation for work have been neglected in previous investigations in the process of people with intellectual disabilities finding employment. This article describes the development of The Work Readiness Scale which was largely adapted from The Readiness to Change Questionnaire.
