Transition for Youths with Learning Disabilities: A Focus on Developing Independence

1992 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 237-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry B. Reiff ◽  
Sharon de Fur
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Transition Planning ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Secondary Outcome ◽  
Federal Legislation ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Successful Transition ◽  
History Of ◽  
Transition Policy ◽  
Transition To Employment

Youths with learning disabilities encounter more difficulty in making a successful transition to employment and independence than their nondisabled peers. Consequently, they can benefit from implementation of recent federal legislation and the accompanying requirements for transition planning and services. Of particular value for youths with learning disabilities is the philosophy underlying these legislative initiatives of self-determination for individuals with disabilities. For youths with learning disabilities to realize these benefits, education and post-secondary service professionals must confront the myths that have previously driven services. This article examines the history of transition policy and legislation, current post-secondary outcome experiences, and transition planning services to improve outcomes for youths with learning disabilities.

scholarly journals Occupational Therapist Role in Post-Secondary Education Transition Program: Emphasis on Self-Advocacy Skills

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Nikki Vorhees
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
Postsecondary Education ◽  
Transition Planning ◽  
Transition Program ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Post Secondary Education ◽  
Self Advocacy ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Transition From High School

It is becoming increasingly important for individuals to obtain post-secondary education in order to gain employment (Alverson et al., 2019; Chandroo et al., 2018). This increased importance to attend post-secondary education makes it imperative for students who are graduating from high school to be fully prepared for the transition to post-secondary education (Rothman et al., 2008). The transition from high school to post-secondary education is difficult for any individual. However, it is even more difficult for students with learning differences, as they tend to have problems in the areas of social skills, communication, problem solving, self-advocacy, and executive functioning (Alverson et al., 2019). These are critical skills required for successful post-secondary transition planning. This indicates a necessary role for OTs to contribute to students’ transition planning as OTs are fully equipped to support the development of skills such as self-advocacy and self-determination (Angell et al., 2019; Spencer et al., 2017). However, currently, there is a limited number of OTs working in transition planning for postsecondary education (Dirette, 2019). The purpose of this capstone project is to develop an occupational therapy-based transition program from high school to post-secondary education. The program will focus on social, self-advocacy, and self-determination skills to help the students transition from high school to post-secondary education as smoothly as possible.

“You Have Living Legends among You”

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Awartani
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Puerto Ricans ◽  
Black Panther Party ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Multiple Generations ◽  
Young Lords ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lincoln Park

In late September 2018, multiple generations of Chicago’s storied social movements marched through Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood as part of the sold-out, three-day Young Lords Fiftieth Anniversary Symposium hosted by DePaul University—an institution that, alongside Mayor Richard J. Daley’s administration, had played a sizeable role in transforming Lincoln Park into a neighborhood “primed for development.” Students, activists, and community members—from throughout Chicago, the Midwest, the East Coast, and even as far as Texas—converged to celebrate the history of Puerto Ricans in Chicago, the legacies of the Young Lords, and the promises and possibilities of resistance. As Elaine Brown, former chairwoman and minister of information for the Black Panther Party, told participants in the second day’s opening plenary, the struggle against racism, poverty, and gentrification and for self-determination and the general empowerment of marginalized people is a protracted one. “You have living legends among you,” Brown insisted, inviting us to associate as equals with the Young Lords members in our midst. Her plea encapsulated the ethos of that weekend’s celebrations: “If we want to be free, let us live the light of the Lords.”

Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth van Houts
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Married Couple ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Emotional Life ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Married Life ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual

This book contains an analysis of the experience of married life by men and women in Christian medieval Europe c. 900–1300. The focus will be on the social and emotional life of the married couple rather than on the institutional history of marriage. The book consists of three parts: the first part (Getting Married) is devoted to the process of getting married and wedding celebrations, the second part (Married Life) discusses the married life of lay couples and clergy, their sexuality, and any remarriage, while the third part (Alternative Living) explores concubinage and polygyny as well as the single life in contrast to monogamous sexual unions. Four main themes are central to the book. First, the tension between patriarchal family strategies and the individual family member’s freedom of choice to marry and, if so, to what partner; second, the role played by the married priesthood in their quest to have individual agency and self-determination accepted in their own lives in the face of the growing imposition of clerical celibacy; third, the role played by women in helping society accept some degree of gender equality and self-determination to marry and in shaping the norms for married life incorporating these principles; fourth, the role played by emotion in the establishment of marriage and in married life at a time when sexual and spiritual love feature prominently in medieval literature.

scholarly journals The hierarchical society: the politics of self-determination and the constitution of new states after 1919

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 372-396
Author(s):  
Maja Spanu
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Society ◽  
International System ◽  
World Politics ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
World War ◽  
New States ◽  
History Of

International Relations scholarship disconnects the history of the so-called expansion of international society from the presence of hierarchies within it. In contrast, this article argues that these developments may in fact be premised on hierarchical arrangements whereby new states are subject to international tutelage as the price of acceptance to international society. It shows that hierarchies within international society are deeply entrenched with the politics of self-determination as international society expands. I substantiate this argument with primary and secondary material on the Minority Treaty provisions imposed on the new states in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe admitted to the League of Nations after World War I. The implications of this claim for International Relations scholarship are twofold. First, my argument contributes to debates on the making of the international system of states by showing that the process of expansion of international society is premised on hierarchy, among and within states. Second, it speaks to the growing body of scholarship on hierarchy in world politics by historicising where hierarchies come from, examining how diverse hierarchies are nested and intersect, and revealing how different actors navigate these hierarchies.

scholarly journals A Rival History of Self-Determination

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 719-743 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Whitehall
Keyword(s):  
Self Determination ◽  
History Of

FEDERAL LEGISLATION ON LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT: HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT, CURRENT STATE AND PROBLEMS

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 147-151
Author(s):  
Madinat Yunuskadievna Jamaludinova ◽  
Raisat Nabievna Sadrudinova ◽  
Marina Rasulovna Minatullaeva
Keyword(s):  
Federal Legislation ◽  
History Of Development ◽  
Current State ◽  
History Of
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