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Paralleled Support Models For Young Adults With Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities, Lucy Ellen Klym
Paralleled Support Models For Young Adults With Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities, Lucy Ellen Klym
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
In the State of Indiana, for students over the age of 14 who have been diagnosed with intellectual or developmental disabilities, the transition from special education to Medicaid waiver oversight should occur seamlessly, but gaps in integrated and aligned goal development strategies remain. As a consequence, students who need adult-based support may not be receiving the full scope of services to which they are entitled. Using common-pool resource theory as a foundation, the purpose of this explanatory case study of transitional services to Indiana Medicaid was to understand, from the perspective of disability support service staff, the barriers to effective …
Stakeholder Perceptions Of Factors That Limit Career And Technical Education Course Offerings, Antonio Cooper
Stakeholder Perceptions Of Factors That Limit Career And Technical Education Course Offerings, Antonio Cooper
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
This study addressed the problem of the lack of Career and Technical Educational (CTE) courses offered at 3 high schools located in a rural Alabama county. Guided by Bourdieu's cultural capital theory, this study examined cultural capital in reference to the transference of knowledge that each high school in this study provides its students throughout their high school education. The research questions explored the stakeholders' perceptions of the factors that prevent the schools from offering more CTE programs and how CTE programs should be expanded in each school. A collective case study design was used for this study, with the …