Profile

Dawn A Rowe, PhD, is a Research Associate Professor at the University of Oregon working as a researcher/technical assistance (TA) provider for the National Technical Assistance Center on Transition. Her duties include providing TA to states and local education agencies on the collection, analysis, and use of secondary transition data, review of literature to expand the evidence-base for secondary transition practices and predictors, and development of research-based training materials related to quality secondary transition components of the IEP and service delivery. She taught several university courses (e.g., Transition Planning and Instruction). Her current research interests include family engagement, life skills Instruction, collaboration, and transition from school to adult life for students with disabilities. She served as a teacher and transition specialist for youth with disabilities in the public-school system for 12 years. Dr. Rowe’s publications have focused on transition assessment, transition skill instruction for low incidence disabilities, and family engagement.