Date Introduced: S3369 January 27, 2025; A5774 February 20, 2025
Status: Did not pass
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Introduced: March 13, 2025
Status: Referred to Higher Education
Status: Passed - Signed Into Law May 26, 2025
This report provides program- and student-level data reported by TPSIDs (Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities) during the 2023-2024 academic year.
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National Coordinating Center
This Executive Summary provides a brief overview of the Annual Report of the Cohort 3 TPSID Model Demonstration Projects (Year 4, 2023–2024).
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National Coordinating Center
This Highlights document was created with data from the Annual Report of the Cohort 3 TPSID Model Demonstration Projects (Year 3, 2023-2024) for those who are interested in the most critical statistics from the report, or are sharing with a broad audience. It features bold graphics and brief summaries of program and student data, including exit and post-exit outcomes.
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National Coordinating Center
This guide focuses on credentials that are specifically for students with intellectual disability enrolled in inclusive postsecondary programs. Steps are carefully outlined about how to develop a robust and comprehensive course of study that culminates in a meaningful credential approved and awarded by the accredited college or university where the program is located. The process is clearly defined and real life examples and testimonies are provided.
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National Coordinating Center
This set of resources from Think College is all you need educate and inform people about the transition to postsecondary education for students with intellectual disability. This list of Think College resources is perfect to share at transition or college fair, an IEP meeting, a school board meeting, or a local education conference. Included in this pack are the following:
This presentation was delivered at the Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation (CSAVR) conference in fall 2024, by Melinda Fruendt, Rachel Hoard, and Russ Thelin. These three professionals have decades of combined experience as practitioners and state and national leaders. In their presentation, they spoke on the importance of collaboration and understanding between VR staff and higher education professionals. Specific examples of success from Oklahoma and Colorado were shared.
In this article, published in the British Journal of Learning Disabilities, the authors present findings from 13 years of data on postsecondary education programs for students with intellectual disability. Since 2010, there has been significant growth in the United States in the number of students with intellectual disability accessing higher education, driven by federal legislation and funding. Currently, over 340 institutions of higher education provide programs of study for students with intellectual disability.