---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 1140f"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "1140f"
heading: "Purpose"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/1140f"
units:
  - "Chapter 28 — Higher Education Resources and Student Assistance"
  - "Subchapter VII — Graduate and Postsecondary Improvement Programs"
  - "Part D — Programs To Provide Students With Disabilities With a Quality Higher Education"
  - "Subpart 2 — transition programs for students with intellectual disabilities into higher education"
---

# §1140f. Purpose


It is the purpose of this subpart to support model demonstration programs that promote the successful transition of students with intellectual [disabilities](/usc/20/1003.md?p=6) into higher education.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–329, title VII, § 766, as added Pub. L. 110–315, title VII, § 709(2), Aug. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 3365.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 766 of Pub. L. 89–329 was classified to section 1132d–5 of this title, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 96–374.