{"title":"Examining Differences in Self-Reported Health and Access to Health Care Among People With Early- and Late-Onset Disability","authors":"Kelsey S. Goddard, Jean P. Hall, Noelle K. Kurth","doi":"10.1177/10442073221142253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10442073221142253","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the study is to compare self-reported health and access to health care among people with early- and late-onset disability. Adults with disabilities 18 to 62 years of age participated in the 2018 National Survey on Health and Disability (NSHD), which is a nationally representative, internet-based survey that provides data related to health insurance and access to health care. A subsample of participants who reported age at disability onset ( n = 1,188) completed measures related to demographics, health status, health insurance, and access to health care services. Results show that people with early-onset disability were significantly more likely to receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI; p < .001), less likely to receive Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI; p < .001), more likely to have Medicaid ( p < .001), and less likely to have Medicare ( p < .01). People with late-onset disability were more likely to report service limitations and were more likely to report fair/poor health ( p < .001). Overall, study findings suggest that people with late-onset disability report higher out-of-pocket health care expenditures, greater access limitations, and poorer health. Medical professionals and disability service providers should be mindful about assisting this population in locating appropriate health insurance coverage, health services, and financial assistance.","PeriodicalId":46868,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Disability Policy Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45363693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reshma P Nuri, Heather M Aldersey, Setareh Ghahari, Ahmed S Huque, Jahan Shabnam
{"title":"The Bangladeshi Rights and Protection of Persons With Disability Act of 2013: A Policy Analysis.","authors":"Reshma P Nuri, Heather M Aldersey, Setareh Ghahari, Ahmed S Huque, Jahan Shabnam","doi":"10.1177/10442073211066789","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10442073211066789","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The government of Bangladesh enacted the Rights and Protection of Persons with Disability Act of 2013 (the Act) in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This article sheds light on the Act with particular emphasis on (a) support offered to children with disabilities (CWDs) and their families to address their needs; and (b) the extent to which the Act is in line with the international disability policy analysis framework. We compared the Act with the 18 core concepts of disability policy developed by Turnbull et al. (2001). The results affirm the government's effort toward Sustainable Development Goals in providing support to CWDs and their families. They indicate a high degree of congruency of the Act with the core concepts. The findings also highlight the need to embrace the concepts of autonomy, confidentiality, and family-centeredness in great detail in any policy initiatives pertaining to CWDs. Furthermore, the finding shows that collaboration and coordination among ministries are imperative to achieve the goal of policies related to disability. In addition, the results highlight the need for more budgetary allocation and robust monitoring systems to track the progress of policy initiatives. As policy implementation is affected by changes in global contexts such as the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, policymakers in Bangladesh and other low- and middle-income countries should ensure that emergency responses are disability-inclusive and appropriate for CWDs. To ensure a disability-inclusive response, it is critical to engage individuals with disabilities and their families in meaningful consultations to identify their needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":46868,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Disability Policy Studies","volume":"33 3","pages":"178-187"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9650720/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40475317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Valerie L. Mazzotti, Mary E. Morningstar, Allison R. Lombardi, Stephen M. Kwiatek, Ashley Taconet, Kathryn Buddeke, Jessica L. Monahan, Ryan Harris
{"title":"Policy and Practice Considerations to Support College and Career Readiness for Youth With Disabilities: A Systematic Mixed Studies Review","authors":"Valerie L. Mazzotti, Mary E. Morningstar, Allison R. Lombardi, Stephen M. Kwiatek, Ashley Taconet, Kathryn Buddeke, Jessica L. Monahan, Ryan Harris","doi":"10.1177/10442073221130528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10442073221130528","url":null,"abstract":"Youth with disabilities must be college and career ready to be prepared for adult life. Policy efforts confirm this prioritization (Every Student Succeeds Act [ESSA], 2015; Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act [IDEIA], 2004). Parallel to the emergence of college and career readiness (CCR), transition planning and service requirements have promoted successful transitions to postschool education, employment, and community living (IDEIA, 2004). However, not all high schools provide a range of CCR supports for these students. We conducted a systematic mixed studies review to investigate the prevalence of five domains of CCR identified in the literature. Findings revealed the five domains had a range of coverage across the literature with academic engagement and process-oriented skills comprising more citations and transition competencies least likely to be included. In addition, across the CCR literature, data for students with disabilities were rarely disaggregated, which confirms that we know even less about the effectiveness of the five domains for these students. Clear gaps were identified and suggests research often does not inform CCR policy and/or practice decisions.","PeriodicalId":46868,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Disability Policy Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46510829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michele C. McDonnall, Jennifer L. Cmar, Zhen S. McKnight
{"title":"The Impact of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act on Agency-Level Vocational Rehabilitation Outcomes for Adults and Youth With Blindness and Low Vision","authors":"Michele C. McDonnall, Jennifer L. Cmar, Zhen S. McKnight","doi":"10.1177/10442073221135811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10442073221135811","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) on outcomes (competitive employment rates and median earnings) for adult and youth vocational rehabilitation consumers with blindness or low vision (B/LV) and to determine whether impacts differed by agency type. We utilized RSA-911 data to create two agency-level longitudinal datasets, one for youth and one for adults, with 6-year pre-WIOA and 3-year post-WIOA periods. Data were analyzed using discontinuous growth modeling to assess longitudinal changes in agency-level outcomes through the inclusion of variables representing WIOA and subsequent change in response to WIOA. After WIOA, both youth and adult agency-level competitive employment rates decreased significantly for consumers with B/LV, with a larger impact on youth, and median earnings increased. Results document that the impact of WIOA on agencies varied widely. Separate agencies had a significant decrease in adult competitive employment rates for consumers with B/LV and a significant increase in median earnings compared with combined agencies. Overall, the influence of WIOA on B/LV consumer outcomes appears to be mixed at best, and the effect is surprisingly similar for youth and adults.","PeriodicalId":46868,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Disability Policy Studies","volume":" 105","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41255160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring Special Education and Center for Independent Living Professional Beliefs on Collaboration and the Value-Based Principles That Drive Secondary Transition Service Delivery","authors":"A. Plotner, Charles B. Walters, Shelby Gonzalez","doi":"10.1177/10442073221131284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10442073221131284","url":null,"abstract":"The importance of interagency collaboration to support the postschool outcomes of youth with disabilities is underscored in many ways. Perhaps one of the most important among them is the place of interagency collaboration as an evidenced-based predictor of postschool success. Although Centers for Independent Living (CILs) receive federal funding to serve people with disabilities across the lifespan, little research exists to map the nature of their collaboration with local education agencies (LEAs) to this end. The current survey-based study examined perceptions of professionals in both settings (i.e., LEAs and CILs) on their current level of collaboration with one another and the value-based principles they believe influence their work as they support transition-age youth with disabilities ( n = 581). Findings indicate a widespread belief in the importance of CILs in youth transition service delivery, a stark contrast between CIL and school-based transition professional perceptions of current collaboration, and a dynamic landscape of shared and divergent ratings of importance across value-based principles of transition practice. Practical implications are outlined to inform CIL and LEA collaboration to support youth with disabilities alongside directions for future research.","PeriodicalId":46868,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Disability Policy Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43885768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creeping Normality: Special Education’s Problem of a New Normal","authors":"J. Kauffman, D. Hallahan, Paige C. Pullen","doi":"10.1177/10442073221128910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10442073221128910","url":null,"abstract":"Many alternative opinions about how best to respond educationally to the reality of human diversity in abilities are possible. Opinions and rhetoric now dominant seem to us inimical to a thriving, vibrant, effective special education. We see trends in concepts or ideas, policies, and publications that we believe could lead slowly but inevitably to special education’s diminishment and eventual demise. We describe what could become the “new normal” through the process of “creeping normalization” and suggest seven alternative propositions that we wish to see affirmed by professional associations and policy-making organizations.","PeriodicalId":46868,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Disability Policy Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45800551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intermediary Services to Assist People With Disabilities to Implement Individualized Funding Plans: A Rapid Systematic Review","authors":"L. O'Brien, Ivana Randjelovic","doi":"10.1177/10442073221130529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10442073221130529","url":null,"abstract":"A systematic review was conducted to describe, and evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of, intermediary services to support people with a disability to implement individualized funding plans. We included six records, including one subanalysis of randomized trial data, three qualitative studies, and two systematic reviews (reporting on 73 and 18 studies, respectively). No studies directly compared “consumer-directed plan plus intermediary services” to “consumer-directed plan with no/alternative intermediary,” so effectiveness of these interventions is uncertain. There is qualitative evidence from the perspective of disability planners and workers that intermediary interventions are important enablers of successful plan implementation. There is also qualitative evidence from consumer and family perspectives that external support is required to successfully navigate self-directed systems and that strong, trusting, and collaborative relationships with both paid and unpaid individuals in the person’s support network were facilitators of successful plan implementation. There was evidence of disabling practices and attitudes among some support agencies, resulting in coordinators being very risk averse in order to safeguard their clients. Suggestions for future research include carefully planned and ethically robust comparative trial designs, clear description and consistent delivery of interventions, and long-term evaluation of impact. The protocol was published on PROSPERO (CRD42020177607).","PeriodicalId":46868,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Disability Policy Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43024991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Relationships Among Parent Involvement, Student Self-Determination, and Postsecondary Education Enrollment for Students With Learning Disabilities","authors":"Wen Zeng, Song Ju, Dalun Zhang","doi":"10.1177/10442073221130748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10442073221130748","url":null,"abstract":"In light of the lower rates of postsecondary education enrollment by students with learning disabilities (LD), researchers have sought to identify predictors of enrollment so that improvement efforts can target specific predictors. Taking advantage of the rich data provided in the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2, we conducted a secondary data analysis to investigate how parent involvement and student self-determination predict postsecondary education enrollment for students with LD. Findings from structural equation modeling analyses showed that parent involvement and student self-determination predict postsecondary education enrollment, and the influence of parent involvement is mediated by student self-determination. These results suggest that parents play an essential role in the secondary transition process, and schools need to make concerted efforts to work with parents to foster student self-determination, which ultimately promotes students’ participation in postsecondary education.","PeriodicalId":46868,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Disability Policy Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43745620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perceptions of Federal Workplace Attributes: Interactions Among Disability, Sex, and Military Experience","authors":"S. von Schrader, Lester H. Shaw, A. Colella","doi":"10.1177/10442073221128917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10442073221128917","url":null,"abstract":"The U.S. federal government strives to be a model employer of people with disabilities. Although it has been successful in recent years in increasing disability hiring, retention of this workforce remains a concern. The researchers of this mixed-methods study sought to understand the perceptions of workplace attributes by employees with disabilities in federal agencies through analysis of the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) and focus groups. The study results indicate that people with disabilities, in general, have lower perceptions of workplace attributes than their peers without disabilities; however, looking at groups differentiated by disability, military experience, and sex tells a richer story. This article incorporates the voices of agency representatives and employees with disabilities to provide additional context to the survey findings. Based on the results, the authors offer practice and policy recommendations to support improved workplace experiences and retention of employees with disabilities.","PeriodicalId":46868,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Disability Policy Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47749411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The 30th Anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act: An Interview With Dr. Jane West","authors":"J. West, M. Yell","doi":"10.1177/10442073221118863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10442073221118863","url":null,"abstract":"Dr. Jane West was involved in the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. This law, which has been called the emancipation proclamation for persons with disabilities, was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush over 30 years ago. Dr. West sat down for an interview in which she addressed the origins, importance, and future of this remarkable law.","PeriodicalId":46868,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Disability Policy Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42746633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}