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This article investigates the impact of school to work transition support for young disabled
adults. We specifically examine the claims of what we have termed the ‘hurdle theory’ of transition
support, which dominates Norwegian disability research. The fundamental assumption of this theory
is that there is a negative relationship between transition support and employment outcomes. We
use a cross-sectional sample of 245 young disabled Norwegian adults to examine this assumption,
and find that transition support in the form of labour market programme (LMP) participation is
negatively associated with employment outcomes, even when we control for other significant
background variables. However, due to limits in our data and the non-arbitrary nature of transition
support, we cannot rule out that there might be other explanatory variables that account for this
association. Therefore, we also point to other potential explanations of the negative association and
research designs better suited to investigate these claims.