Evidence-Based Practices for Helping Secondary Students with
Autism Transition Successfully to Adulthood
David Test, Ph.D., University of North
Carolina, Charlotte
This session will summarize the evidence-based transition
strategies identified by a comprehensive literature review
conducted by the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance
Center. Examples of applying strategies related to student-focused
planning, student skill development, interagency collaboration,
family involvement, and program structure with students with autism
and other developmental disabilities and their families will be
described.
Dr. David W. Test, Professor of Special Education at the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, teaches courses in
single subject research, transition, classroom management, and
professional writing. The majority of Dr. Test's publications have
focused on self-determination, transition, community-based
training, and supported employment. Along with Dr. Nellie Aspel and
Dr. Jane Everson, he wrote the first transition methods textbook
titled Transition Methods for Youth with Disabilities. Dr.
Test currently serves as a Co-Principal Investigator (with Dr.
Paula Kohler and Dr. Larry Kortering) of the National Secondary
Transition Technical Assistance Center, as Co-Director (with Dr.
Wendy Wood) on the Self-Determination Technical Assistance Centers
project, and on the UNC Charlotte Doctoral Leadership Personnel
Preparation Program (with Dr. Diane Browder). He and Dr. Bob
Algozzine currently serve as co-editors of Career Development
for Exceptional Individuals.