Service Works: Promoting Transition Success for Students with Disabilities through Participation in Service Learning

[...] the concept of promoting "relationships" as a component of increasing student achievement is based on research that indicates students demonstrate higher achievement in school when they perceive that they have a personal relationship with an adult in the school National Conference of State Legislators, 2008J. [...] service learning has a strong potential to engage students in thinking critically about their future occupations, the realities of the world of work, and the unquestionable relevance of education to their own destinies.