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Webinar: What the Think College National Coordinating Center can do for YOU!

The future is bright! The Think College National Coordinating Center was refunded through 2025, and is looking forward to continuing its work first begun in 2010. In this webinar, you can meet the team and learn how the work of the National Coordinating Center supports higher education professionals, K-12 educators, families and students who are interested in higher education for students with intellectual disability.

Key staff of Center shared their activities and plans for the next five years, including:

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Supporting mentors working with students with intellectual disabilities in higher education

Project Panther LIFE is an inclusive postsecondary transition program for students with intellectual disabilities providing university access and participation with the primary goal of employment at program completion. Students in the program receive support from their academic mentors and peer coaches during the academic year. This study examines the skills and activities mentors use during their weekly sessions with students with intellectual disabilities and identifies areas in which mentors may require further support or training.

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Wait, What? You Want me to Talk about Sexuality and Developmental Disabilities?

People with I/DD want and need sexuality education to lead sexually healthy lives. Many people with disabilities believe that they have not received the education they need to have positive relationships that are enriching and not exploitive. Many talk about being in a mainstream health class and being removed when the sexuality unit began. We also know that people with I/DD are 7 times more likely to be sexually abused than someone in the general population, and they are at risk for unplanned pregnancy, sexually transmitted infection, and loneliness.

Where Are We Now: Program Accreditation Standards

The National Coordinating Center released a report to Congress and the Secretary of Education on model program accreditation standards for inclusive higher education programs in September, 2020.  This webinar provided information to better understand how these standards will improve quality and accountability for college programs for students with ID and how the standards will have a positive impact on the field.

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The NCC Dissemination Team Just Got a Bit Better

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The Think College National Coordinating Center is excited to welcome Sheila Johnson to the Knowledge Translation team! Sheila comes to us from, well, the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI). Sheila spent the past 9 years at the ICI communicating the message that adults with intellectual disabilities can and should participate in community integrated employment.

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Preparing for College

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Part of any adventure is planning and getting ready - and going to college is no different.  This article shares a number of helpful resources that families and teachers can use to support students to be ready for college.

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College Options for Students with ID Expand in Portugal

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In October 2020, Meg Grigal, co-PI of the Think College National Coordinating Center (NCC), received an email from Marisa Maia Machado, Researcher at the Department of Education and Psychology at University of Aveiro (UA) in Portugal. Marisa explained that she became passionate about including students with intellectual and developmental disabilitie

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