Educators play a vital role in setting expectations and sharing resources with students and families who are interested in college. This resource includes steps educators and transition professionals can take to help students with intellectual disability (ID) and their families to explore college options!
This slide deck shares information that postsecondary education programs for students with intellectual disability can use to understand the current status of program accreditation and learn about tools that are available from Think College to support programs in becoming accreditation-ready. Future steps to refine and finalize an accrediting process and develop an accrediting agency are also shared.
This handy "hyperdoc" lists the most up-to-date and critical resources from Think College on the transition to college for students with intellectual disability. It includes the title, a brief description, and a link to each document in three different topic areas: preparing for college, selecting a college, and paying for college.
A flyer with a QR code to the resource online is also included, and can be downloaded and printed to share with others.
All inclusive postsecondary education (IPSE) programs are "housed" in a particular department, school, institute, or other administrative center on a college or university campus. This decision is unique to each institution and IPSE program. This publication shares the locations of current programs based on a survey and data from Transition and Postsecondary Education Programs for Students with Intellectual Disability (TPSID) projects.
The Think College team presented a poster at the AUCD Annual Conference from November 13-16, 2022 in Washington D.C. This resource listing includes a variety of resources that accompanied the poster.
The poster is about state funding for postsecondary education for students with intellectual disability. It covers different types of legislative funding (student funding, program funding) and how UCEDDs have been involved with state legislation.
This resource shares the relevant sections of the Higher Education Act regulations and information from the US Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education website related to the definition of intellectual disability, related statutory language and more information about the definition of ID used in the Higher Education Act. This information should guide programs as they determine how to document intellectual disability for students to be eligible to participate in a TPSID model demonstration program or to be eligible for federal student aid when attending
Cualquier estudiante que se prepare para la universidad debe tener un plan para pagarla, y los estudiantes con discapacidad de desarrollo e intelectual (IDD), probablemente utilicen muchos de los mismos recursos que otros estudiantes universitarios para pagar la universidad. También hay algunos recursos específicos a considerar para personas con discapacidad. Los estudiantes recurren a numerosos métodos para pagar la universidad, a menudo entrelazando varias fuentes de financiación diferentes para cubrir los costos.
In this article, featured in Impact, Cate Weir provides an overview of Think College. The article includes the history of Think College, who we are today, what Think College can do for you, and where we are headed next.
As students and their families look at college options, the question of how to pay for it is on everyone’s mind. No one solution is going to work for all students, so this webinar shares information on several funding options that students and families can explore, such as Vocational Rehabilitation, Medicaid, scholarships, federal student aid, Veteran’s benefits, and ABLE accounts. Details of each funding source are shared, as well as an overview of the conditions under which available funding possibilities may be an option.
Significant advancements resulting from various legislative and grant initiatives have resulted in increases in higher education programs enrolling students with intellectual disability (ID). Information about program practices in admissions, academic access, employment, campus housing, and extracurricular activities was gathered via a national survey and offered to the public via a searchable directory.
