Students With Disabilities and/or Family Members With Students With Disabilities That Have a Section 504 Plan
Conditions
Keywords
Disability, Section 504, Section 504 plans
Brief summary
The goal of this training program is to learn if the intervention (i.e., training program) can improve access to Section 504 among students with disabilities and family caregivers. If students with disabilities and/or family caregivers are educated and empowered about Section 504, then there may be improved access to higher-quality of Section 504 plans. We aim to answer the following question: Is the training program effective? If there is a comparison group: We (our research team) will compare the intervention group to a waitlist-control group to discern differences in advocacy, empowerment, and knowledge and, subsequently, higher quality Section 504 plans and greater access to services. Participants will: * Attend an online class for an hour and a half each week for 6 weeks * Complete a pre-survey * Complete a formative evaluation after each program session * Complete a summative evaluation after the entire advocacy program * Complete a post-survey after completing the advocacy program * Complete a follow-up survey * Submit a copy of their child's (or their) Section 504 plan after providing consent
Interventions
OTHERTreatment
Training program about Section 504 for individuals with disabilities and/or family caregivers of an individual with disabilities.
OTHERMaterials-only control condition
Materials-only then access to advocacy training around Section 504 plans for individuals with disabilities and/or family caregivers of individuals with disabilities. Will have advocacy training 6 months after the control group.
Sponsors
Vanderbilt University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Intervention model description
This is a randomized controlled trial with a waitlist-control group.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
12 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
The participant must be willing to complete the research measures and the training program as well as meet one of the two following criteria: * be a student aged 12-21 who receives Section 504 supports during K-12 school * be the caregiver of a child who receives Section 504 supports during K-12 school
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Knowledge of Section 504 | From enrollment to the end of the training program at six weeks | This is a 20 item measure; each item has four response options. Only one response option is correct. The score is the sum of correct responses ranging from 0 to 20. |
| Advocacy Activities Scale | From enrollment to the end of the training program at six weeks | This is a 15 item measure wherein each item has four response options. The final score is the sum of the response options. |
| Empowerment | From enrollment to the end of the training program at six weeks | This is a 34 item measure wherein each item has four responses. The score is the sum of the responses. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Quality of the Section 504 plan | From enrollment to six months after the end of the training program | This is a rubric which gauges the quality of the Section 504 plan. The score reflects a range from 0-15 of needed items on the Section 504 plan. |
| Service access | From enrollment to six months after the end of the training program | This is a 24 item measure that examines whether a certain support is received. The score is the sum of received supports (ranging from 0-24). |
Countries
United States
Contacts
CONTACTMeghan M Burke, Dr.
Outcome results
None listed