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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"transition planning"”.
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Virginia Farmer Retirement and Transition Planning
… focuses on determining how Virginia farmers are planning for farm retirement and succession and whether they will be financially prepared for their retirement years. The Virginia farming population is aging, life expectancy is increasing, and Social Security benefits are not a stable source of …
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Development of a family agribusiness transition planning tool
… outlines the various elements of succession planning, and describes the motivations and objectives surrounding the composition of a succession plan. Business, retirement, and estate planning elements were integrated to develop a succession planning tool for use in transitioning labor, …
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Community College Performance of Students With Learning Disabilities: Transition Planning Implications
… The findings of this study hold implications for transition planning efforts of youth, educators, and policy makers as students continue to matriculate from high school to community colleges.
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High-Performance Computing and Parallel Techniques for Scalable Optimization of Power System Transition Planning
This thesis introduces the Power System Transition Planning (PSTP) framework, formalizing a problem class in long-term transition planning problems that directly embraces the computational burden of realis-tic transition modeling. Unlike conventional Generation and Transmission Expansion (GTEP) or …
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Transition planning for young people with severe learning disabilities : social positions and power relationships
… express their views and aspirations during their transition planning meeting. Although the young people were able to make choices and communicate their views and aspirations in an often assertive manner, this did not guarantee that they were meaningfully included. Professionals and school staff …
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STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF FACTORS RELATED TO TRANSITION PLANNING THAT SUPPORT THEIR PURSUIT OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION
… study was to understand the influence that transition planning had on the pursuit of postsecondary education based on the perceptions of students with disabilities. The present study was guided by the following research question: What factors related to transition planning support high …
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Secondary special education teachers' perceived levels of knowledge, involvement & importance of transition planning & delivery competencies
… s of knowledge, involvement, and importance of transition planning and service delivery among secondary special education teachers in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Relationships were also explored between these levels and years of experience teaching students with special needs, category of …
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BETTER POSTSECONDARY OUTCOMES FOR STUDENTS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS THROUGH BACKWARD-DESIGNED TRANSITION PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING
… despite decades of policy efforts to improve transition services. Research indicates that these outcomes are less related to academic capacity and more strongly associated with social competence, executive functioning, and self-advocacy. The purpose of this study was to examine the existing …
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UNDERSTANDING TRANSITION PLANNING AND POSTSECONDARY OUTCOMES FOR YOUNG ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES ACROSS NATIONAL, STATE, AND SCHOOL LEVELS
… legislation requiring high schools to provide transition planning to develop college and career readiness. The purpose of this study was to investigate aspects of transition planning experienced by students with disabilities, including course of study, direct instruction, and student role, and …
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Because I Am Human: Centering Black Women with Dis/abilities in Transition Planning from High School to College
… is a dearth of literature about post-secondary transition experiences of Black women with dis/abilities (BWD). In this qualitative study, I explore transition experiences of five post-secondary BWD from high school to college in order to privilege her chronicles and narratives as knowledge. In …
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Students with disabilities: making IDEA transition services work
… & Kim-Rupnow, 2001). For many of these students, transition services are not being implemented and monitored as mandated by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), therefore, the probability for a successful transition from high school to adulthood for these students is severely …
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Transition from school to adult life: what have we done to support students with disabilities?
<p>As a legal component of an individual's IEP, a transition plan essentially should represent and include activities to prepare individuals with disabilities for postgraduate experiences. Activities should be individualized and relevant to each individual intended post school environments. Though …
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Collaborative practice to support young people with ASN during the school to post-school transition in Scotland (The perspectives of young people, their families and professionals)
The school to post-school transition has been identified as a time when young people with Additional Support Needs (ASN) need extra support. This thesis focuses on the school to post-school transition planning and preparation process for young people with ASN in Scotland. In particular, the author …
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Traversing the transition abyss : examining lived experiences of the transition to adulthood process for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities
Bear, Samantha J. The transition to adulthood for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) remains a critical yet under-researched area, often characterized by fragmented planning and systemic barriers. Despite evidence-based practices and legal mandates, many individuals …
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Transition services for non-mainstreamed students
… was to investigate the vocational needs and transition services for non-mainstreamed high school students. Two transition needs and service surveys were conducted to 46 high school students under special education services and to 6 professionals who provide services. It was to determine if …
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An Analysis of the Utilization of SSI Incentives by Transition Professionals Working With Students With Visual Disabilities
… between residential school for the blind transition coordinators' reported knowledge levels of selected SSI information, cash, medical and work incentive items and their reported level of use of these items with their high school students in transition planning. Thirty-one of the 38 …
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Leadership Transition Barriers in Small Nonprofits - An Analysis of Board Engagement
… be prepared for executive director leadership transitions, whether planned or unplanned, recognizing that their responsibility to the organization demands a prepared approach to the transition. Yet the opposite regularly occurs. Boards are rarely prepared for transition, spend little to no time …
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Impact of Person-Environment-Occupation Model Training on Teacher Transition Problem-Solving
… framework or model that is applied to the transition planning process for students with disabilities, other than the transition mandates set forth by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA, 2004). This often results in educators picking transition plan goals and interventions …
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Transition Competencies: Secondary Special Education Teachers' Perceptions of Their Frequency of Performance
… be inconsistently performing competencies during transition planning that leads to sustainable, postsecondary success. Secondary special education teachers’ frequency of performance of transition competencies during transition service delivery are essential to fulfilling their duties and …
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