LOCAL AUTISM POLICY NETWORKS: EXPERTISE AND INTERMEDIARY ORGANIZATIONS

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FULL CITATION ABSTRACT SUMMARY CRITIQUES AND LIMITATIONS FOLLOW-UP Parsons, B. M. (2016). Local autism policy networks: Expertise and intermediary organizations. Educational Policy, doi:10.1177/0895904816673743 Introduction: The increasing prevalence of diagnoses for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), now one in 68 children according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), presents a number of policy implications. In particular, many…

STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF THE ACCOMMODATION PROCESS IN POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

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ABSTRACT One cause of the underrepresentation of students with disabilities in postsecondary education may be a lack of appropriate and effective accommodations (e.g., West et al., 1993). This study hypothesized that ineffective and inappropriate accommodations result from an accommodation selection process that focuses on disability type rather than students’ contextual and functional needs. Quantitative and qualitative…