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 forimproving student, teacher, and community agency personnel outcomes. Research indicates thatinteragency collaboration models are needed to address gaps in the services provided to studentswith disabilities to ensure a successful transition from high school.The CIRCLES intervention aims toincrease positive transition outcomes—student self-determination, knowledge and perspectives of thetransition planning process, and secondary and postsecondary engagement—for students withdisabilities by improving the interagency collaboration among teachers and community agencypersonnel. Improving upon the research design of a prior investigation of CIRLCES, the proposedstudy will use a cluster randomized trial to generate robust evidence of the intervention's impact onproximal student, teacher, and community agency personnel outcomes and distal student outcomes.