Transition Needs Identification of College Students With Disabilities in Taiwan

Abstract

This research investigated the factors that motivated or caused college students with disabilities to identify transition needs compared with what they originally requested. The research began with a survey of transition needs conducted with 72 students who would graduate from college in 1 year, and the same survey was conducted with the same students a year later. The survey was followed by interviewing 11 students who made more than 10 transition need changes in the second survey. The research found that requiring different transition needs or concealing transition needs was determined by natural factors, external factors, personal condition factors, and environmental factors. Per analysis results, implications for improving students’ transition needs identification and transition services’ quality were given.