CSESA
With the grant's conclusion, the center has completed its mission and closed.
The Center on Secondary Education for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (CSESA) was a research and development project funded by the U.S. Department of Education that focused on developing, adapting, and studying a comprehensive school-based and community-based education program for high school students on the autism spectrum.
CSESA was a 5-year project that brought together experts in autism, secondary education, adolescence, and implementation to work in collaboration with high schools, families, adolescents with ASD, and community members to improve high school experiences and post-secondary outcomes for individuals on the autism spectrum.
CSESA at SDSU
CSESA was a collaboration among researchers located at seven of the leading research and development centers related to developmental disabilities in the United States, guided by an advisory board with expertise in autism, secondary education, adolescence, and implementation. SDSU was one of the seven team members.
Faculty members Hall, Kraemer & Brum are part of the Institute for Education Sciences, which funded CSESA. They also worked with researchers from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (where the project leads Hume and Odom reside) — visit CSESA at Chapel Hill — and from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. CSESA collected follow-up data on the 547 high school students with ASD who participated in an earlier study to learn from them and their families about life during the transition or following graduation.
SDSU Co-Principal Investigators
- Laura Hall, Ph.D. 619-594-0768 / [email protected]
- Bonnie Kraemer, Ph.D. 619-594-3492 / [email protected]
