Bio

  Dr. Jackie Marquette is the founder of The Marquette Group which provides consultation, training, planning, organizational development, and policy analysis for agencies and families who want to create “meaningful daily living” and increased capability and independence for individuals with ASD and developmental disabilities. Jackie provides educational family consultation in adolescent and young adult transition, both ASD and DD.   

  She has over 20 years of experience as a special educator, school consultant, and has publications in books, journals, and monthly newsletters. Jackie has a Ph.D. from the University of Louisville where she studied how youth with ASD successfully reached independent living. She developed and validated a new assessment tool, the Capability and Independence Scale (CAIS ©). The CAIS  measures capability and independent levels in individuals and is a protocol for evaluating  need for supports to enhance personal growth outcomes as life planning occurs. 

  She delivers seminars on her Walking the Path Model©. Her latest book, Becoming Remarkably Able: Walking the Path to Gifts, Interests, and Personal Growth, is being published in summer of 2007. Jackie consulted to Hardin County Schools developing a project for students with disabilities to access paid jobs in 2000-2004.

  She initiated and coordinated a statewide project in 1998-1999, Autism Community Training ACT in Kentucky through the Kentucky Autism Training Center which established employment supports for young adults with ASD.

  Her son, Trent, has autism, is employed at Meijer department stores, has his own art business, Trent’s Studio LLC, and has lived independently for 6 years with “creative supports.” He has also been designated a Kentucky Juried Artist by the Kentucky Arts Council.