High school students with disabilities

What is high school?

Refers to students with mild to severe disabilities in high school, usually grades 9 or 10 through 12 in the U.S. educational system.

What the Kennedy Center is doing:

Project Outcome: Improving the outcomes of secondary-age students with emotional disturbance--U.S. Department of Education (1999-2004)
Carolyn Hughes, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, Joseph Wehby, Ph.D.

Project PBS [Positive Behavior Support]: A three-tiered prevention model to better serve all students--U. S. Department of Education (2002-2005)
Kathleen Lane, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, Joseph Wehby, Ph.D.
This project addresses the following objectives: (a) examines the challenges of implanting a three-tier model of positive behavior support at the high school level in a rural community; (b) identifies the types and patterns of behavioral problems manifested at the high school level; (c) designs and implements systematically a three-tier model with primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions using data-based decision making; and (4) evaluates how students with varying types of behavior problems respond to various levels of supports.

Learn more about high school students with disabilities:

National Center for Youth with Disabilities
National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilies
Visual Disabilities research program
Transitionink.com -- Resources for supporting high school students with disabilites .