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Beginning in the mid-1980’s, the U.S. Department of Education recognized that the first group of students who has been all the way through special education, as authorized under the 1975 Education of the Handicapped Act (PL 94-142), were leaving school and were not successful in adult life. Unemployment, lack of enrollment in postsecondary education, continued dependence on parents, social isolation, and lack of involvement in community-based activities were found among young adults with disabilities. Today, while students with disabilities are making progress toward improved adult outcomes, recent data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 continues to report that they are not keeping up with their same aged peers without disabilities. (Wagner, Newman, Carneto, Levine, & Garza, 2006).