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There is a widespread misconception that transition planning and programming begin in high school. However, there are many opportunities for teachers to infuse transition-focused education into teaching and learning activities for their elementary grade...

Extracurricular activities are known to provide students a range of rich experiences that influence their academic achievement, leadership and communication skills, and career paths. Students with disabilities (SWD) historically have limited access to...

Researchers concur that self-regulated learners assume increased responsibility for their own behavior and learning over time by strategically setting and planning to meet goals, monitoring and evaluating their progress, and using feedback to adjust their...

Students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often struggle with a series of executive functioning (EF) deficits that make independent behavior in general education settings difficult. Consequently, teachers or paraprofessionals often are required to...

Increased focus on participation in transition planning for individuals with disabilities expands the need for effective interventions to support their success. This paper describes the use of a naturalistic self-monitoring protocol designed to increase...

The authors used data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2; SRI International, 2000) to examine the aspects of self-determination assessed in NLTS2 and measurement equivalence and latent differences across the 12 disability categories...

Challenges in assessing the pain of children with special needs are created by the differing abilities of these students to self-report pain presence and intensity. This article reports the results of a literature review examining methods of pain...

Secondary data analysis using the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 data set was conducted to examine the degree to which autonomy, psychological empowerment, and self-realization (3 of 4 essential characteristics of self-determination) play a...

Nonacademic skills related to college and career readiness (CCR) have become more prevalent in the literature as proposed conceptual models and frameworks, yet little empirical research exists in their support. We employed latent variable modeling to...

The Self-Determination Inventory: Student Report (SDI:SR) was developed to address a need in the field for tools to assess self-determination that are aligned with current best practices in assessment development and administration, and emerging research...