CIRCLES: Effects of CIRCLES on the Provision of Transition Services and Resulting Transition Outcomes for Students with Disabilities

Project Description

The purpose of this project is to evaluate the efficacy of the Communicating InteragencyRelationships and Collaborative Linkages for Exceptional Students (CIRCLES) intervention for improving student, teacher, and community agency personnel outcomes. Research indicates that interagency collaboration models are needed to address gaps in the services provided to students with disabilities to ensure a successful transition from high school. 

The CIRCLES intervention aims to increase positive transition outcomes—student self-determination, knowledge and perspectives of the transition planning process, and secondary and postsecondary engagement—for students with disabilities by improving the interagency collaboration among teachers and community agency personnel. Improving upon the research design of a prior investigation of CIRCLES, the proposed study will use a cluster randomized trial to generate robust evidence of the intervention's impact on proximal student, teacher, and community agency personnel outcomes and distal student outcomes.