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In addition to the factors reviewed already, you may wonder which intervention programs are helpful in aiding transition to post-secondary education and/or employment. This is a relatively new area of research, so findings for most interventions are preliminary. For example, video modeling of social-communicative skills was found to improve these skills in two college students with Asperger syndrome (Mason et al. 2012), but a group of autistic adolescents doing an online transition planning program did no better than a control group (Hatfield et al. 2017).

As mentioned, large-scale longitudinal studies are ideal when evaluating what makes a difference to youth outcomes. There is one such study in the field: the National Longitudinal Transition Study. This study found that case management in adolescence was associated with increased community and social participation in adulthood (Myers et al. 2015). The authors concluded that case management may be crucial for optimizing adult outcomes in ASD. Therefore, if you are going to seek out one intervention to help your child succeed in adulthood, seek out a case manager who has experience with ASD! The role of case managers is discussed further in Chapter 3.