“…A number of efforts have been made in the past several years to investigate state and district implementation of the IDEA 1990 federal requirements for needed transition services (Aspel, Bettis, Test, & Wood, 1998;Baer, Simmons, & Flexer, 1996;Cameto, Marder, Wagner, & Cardoso, 2003;DeStefano, Heck, Hasazi, & Furney, 1999;Grigal, Test, Beattie, & Wood, 1997;Hasazi, Johnston, Liggett, & Schattman, 1994;Johnson et al, 1997;O'Leary, 2000). With reference to the IDEA 1997 transition requirements, the President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education found that transition services were not being implemented "to the fullest extent possible and that meaningful results do not happen" (U.S. Department of Education, 2002, p. 46).…”