Interagency cooperation in inclusive higher education for persons with intellectual disability : a literature review

Abstract EN

A university/college plays one of the most essential roles in students' lives, helping them secure jobs and improving important skills for their daily needs.

Thus, providing students with intellectual disability with necessary services, resources, and other forms of support through cooperative partnerships outside of the university/college is one of the most effective factors for the success of such students as well as of postsecondary education programs.

These programs can provide many benefits to these students, because different types of participants—agencies, organizations, and individuals—serve these students in the programs and improve the quality of services offered to them.

This article aims to provide a brief review of inclusive higher education for people with intellectual disability in the United States in the scope of interagency cooperation ina university/college by reviewing the literature in this field.

Two main themes emerged—interagency cooperation in postsecondary education and federal support as a focal point for interagency cooperation in college/university—which may encourage researchers and program decisionmakers to offer external collaborative partnerships to such students.

Additionally, the results will may induce other countries to take similar steps to integrate such students into colleges/universities, and to pay close attention to the role of collaborative partnerships in developing the efficiency of postsecondary education programs.