WORK BASED EXPERIENCE

Work Based Experience

Work Based Experience and its Effects on Transition Outcomes.

The transition of high school students with disabilities into the mature individual world is a foremost anxiety in the field of exceptional education. The reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 1990 (Public Law 10 1 -476) characterized transition as "an outcome-oriented process that encourages action from school to post-school activities, encompassing postsecondary education, occupational training, integrated paid work, extending and mature individual education, mature individual services, unaligned dwelling, or community participation" (Hughes and Eisenman, 1996, p. 135). When IDEA was reauthorized in 1997, ...