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Since the amendments to the Rehabilitation Act made by title IV of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), the vocational rehabilitation (VR) program can be characterized as providing a continuum of services beginning with pre-employment transition services (Pre-ETS) for students with disabilities in the early stages of career and employment exploration. NTACT created this simple continuum to provide a very basic overview of these services. 

NTACT:C partners have developed this document to help compare and contrast the transition services requirements for Education, Vocational Rehabilitation (VR), including Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) consistent with the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) and the Rehabilitation Act as amended by WIOA.  Organized by major parts of these laws, this document outlines how each entity addresses:

The Toolkit can help you increase the opportunities for meaningful relationships between all students. This Toolkit is structured to address the challenge of friendships between students with and without disabilities in inclusive settings. It assumes as much inclusion as possible as the starting point, and it contains practical strategies to promote friendship development from there. (Because of the emphasis on friendships between students with and without disabilities, this resource may not be helpful for teachers in segregated schools where all the student have disabilities.)

Developed by the Center on Transition Innovations at Virginia Commonwealth University, this guide can be used as a reference to support the development of postsecondary goals in employment and education/training.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, day and employment service providers have had to quickly determine how best to provide supports for people they serve. For many this means transitioning to services and supports that can be provided remotely. This Institute for Community Inclusion brief is one in a series developed to help community providers continue to provide services to those who are currently working, seeking employment, or engaged in community-based day supports. 

This resource is called the Self-Advocacy Curriculum. This curriculum was made by National Autism Resource and Information Center. A curriculum has a lot of information that teaches you something. Teachers use curriculums when they are planning what they want to teach their students.

Telling your story is a great way to make a difference — and because it’s your story, there’s no one better to tell it! Our stories are powerful political tools, and we can use them to make real change. Hearing a real person talk about a policy problem gives policymakers a name and face to remember. This is a toolkit and it was made by the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN). It helps you brainstorm the most important parts of what you want to say, and make a plan to use your story to create policy change. 

EVERY RIDE COUNTS is the National Aging & Disability Transportation Center (NADTC) comprehensive publicity campaign to promote the availability and accessibility of transportation options for older adults, people with disabilities and caregivers in communities around the country. The campaign’s carefully crafted messages and materials include designated spaces for your local organization’s logo and information, enabling you to customize them for your community. 

The campaign overview is available here in English and Spanish.

This document includes the original, 2021 version of program accreditation standards, guidance on how to address those standards in your inclusive college program, and the documentation that will be required to indicate that the standard is met. For the current version, see the 2024 Program Accreditation Guidance Manual.

The Model Program Accreditation Standards for College Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities were finalized in September, 2020, following extensive development, refinement and review by hundreds of community members. A final report to Congress was published in May 2021; it can be found here.