TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leiter,Valerie
TI  - Their Time Has Come: Youth with Disabilities on the Cusp of Adulthood 
T2  - Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
SN  - 9780813552477
AV  - HV1569.3.Y68 L45 2012
U1  - 362.4 
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Young adults with disabilities
KW  - Education
KW  - Employment
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Youth with disabilities
KW  - Services for
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Disability policy gaps
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; 1. A Crisis Situation? --; 2. The Rules Have Changed --; 3. Participation and Voice --; 4. Making Their Own Maps --; 5. College, Rights, and Goodness of Fit --; 6. The End of Entitlement --; 7. (Im)permanent Markers of Adulthood --; 8. Missing Links --; Appendix:Research Methods --; Notes --; References --; Index --; About the Author; restricted access
N2  - The lives of youth with disabilities have changed radically in the past fifty years. Youth who are coming of age right now are the first generation to receive educational services throughout childhood and adolescence. Disability policies have opened up opportunities to youth, and they have responded by getting higher levels of education than ever before. Yet many youth are being left behind, compared to their peers without disabilities. Youth with disabilities often still face major obstacles to independence. In Their Time Has Come, Valerie Leiter argues that there are crucial missing links between federal disability policies and the lives of young people. Youth and their parents struggle to gather information about the resources that disability policies have created, and youth are not typically prepared to use their disability rights effectively. Her argument is based on thorough examination of federal disability policy and interviews with young people with disabilities, their parents, and rehabilitation professionals. Attention is given to the diversity of expectations, the resources available to them, and the impact of federal policy and public and private attitudes on their transition to adulthood
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813553306
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813553306
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780813553306/original
ER  -