This webinar, recorded in June 2018, takes a fresh look at family engagement in postsecondary education programs from a parent perspective. Parents and program staff explore strategies for effective family engagement practices in light of Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) requirements, self-determination, and evidence on the importance of continuing parental involvement and support for young adults with ID/DD.
This video series can be used as part of a comprehensive peer mentor training program. The videos were designed to provide strategies for peers providing academic support, and were developed by Megan Goldfarb, when she served as an academic coach for the Virginia Commonwealth University ACE-IT program.
This webinar introduced an open video resource developed for Think College by a student at Virginia Commonwealth University who supports students with intellectual disability in their classes. The video series shares tips and strategies that other students can use as peer supports or mentors.
This resource includes the captioned recording and the transcript for the Expanding the Dialogue on Autism: Reflections on Research & Real Life in Employment webinar. This is the second event in a series of online talks from the Institute for Community Inclusion.
This resource includes the captioned recording and the transcript for the Expanding the Dialogue on Autism: Reflections on Research & Real Life in Education webinar. Featured on this panel were Maria Paiewonsky, program coordinator and transition specialist at ICI; Ned Pavlak, a student at Holyoke Community College (HCC); Julia Landau, Director of Mass Advocates for Children; and, Stephen Shore, professor, advocate, author, and international speaker on education, advocacy, disclosure, and more.
This webinar gives examples and strategies for how to effectively communicate your message on-campus, how you can positively affect the campus community, and what your program can offer to the campus so everyone recognizes the invaluable contribution your program and the students make to the entire campus community. The Power Point is included here, along with the recording of the webinar and the transcript.
Included in this resource is the Power Point, recording, and transcript for the #includemeincollege: How One Girl’s Dream of College Changed Others’ Ways of Thinking webinar, featuring Jennifer & Chloe Farmer, held December 7, 2017.
Data on student outcomes is critical for program evaluation and advocacy. In this webinar, we present a process and strategies and that can be used to collect student outcome data. We share examples of tools that are used to document student outcomes from one program as well as the TPSID follow-up data tool. Ideas of how to use outcome data will be shared. The webinar is designed for programs that are not currently collecting data through the TPSID Data Network.
This webinar from July 2017 looks at what you can and cannot do when educating state legislators, how to do it, who to approach and how to say it. Templates and tools are shared. Whether you are an experienced advocate or a beginner, there is something here for you.
This online Research Summit from February 2017 focused on the topic of mentoring and peer relationships among students with and without intellectual disabilities. The presenters were Cindi May, Ph.D., from College of Charleston and Brian Freedman, Ph.D. & Laura Eisenman, Ph.D. from University of Delaware.
