This article focuses on the challenges students with disabilities face when making the transition from high school to postsecondary education.
This article addresses the difficulties that adults with autism spectrum disorders have in finding information and services.
A website of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Aging with Developmental Disabilities: Lifespan Health and Function located at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
In 2010, The Arc conducted a national online survey, called the FINDS Survey, to obtain perceptions of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families on a range of life-span issues.
This article summarizes one pilot program that brought together a school district, the vocational rehabilitation services, a local employment vendor, and a local community college to help encourage students in their final years of high school to find and maintain employment.
This textbook, geared towards people in graduate or upper level undergraduate university courses, develops and analyzes a public health framework and model that can be applicable and beneficial to social policies focusing on child welfare, education, mental health, health, developmental disabilities, juvenile justice, and poverty.
This issue brief highlights many of the new Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services provisions included in the Affordable Care Act.
This checklist is intended to increase the awareness of people who work with persons with children, youth, and families that have disabilities about the importance of cultural diversity.
The paper summarizes key research findings on siblings of individuals with disabilities and provides an initial set of guidelines and recommendations to guide new research in this area.
Lovaas, O. I. (1987). Behavioral treatment and normal educational and intellectual functioning in young autistic children. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 55(1), 3-9. This article describes the result of intensive behavior treatment (applied behavior analysis) for a group of young children with autism spectrum disorders. The group that had behavior treatment appeared to a…
