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A list of five ways educators can encourage students to understand and communicate about their own learning style.

The Program Sustainability Assessment Tool is a 40 item self-assessment that program staff and interested groups can take to evaluate the sustainability capacity of a program. When you take the assessment online you will receive an automated summary report of your overall sustainability. You can use these results to engage in sustainability planning. The assessment is made up of 40 multiple choice questions. You will rate your program/coalition/set of activities across the 8 sustainability components. The assessment takes about 10-15 minutes to complete.

This checklist and worksheet assists job developers to think through the variety of ways to collect information about a job seeker. It describes seven strategies for information gathering, and then asks the job developer to reflect on which strategies they used and how they used them. 

The primary purpose of interagency transition teams serving youth with disabilities is to improve the post school outcomes for youth who are transitioning from secondary education to adult life. This resource is published to assist state-level transition coordinators as well as for persons charged with the responsibility of forming, conducting, and evaluating the performance of interagency transition teams serving youth with disabilities.

This graphic compares traditional pathways to college to alternate forms of access to postsecondary programs for students with intellectual disabilities, including financial aid, entrance requirements, extracurricular activities, etc.

This Mentor Application was developed by Vanderbilt University's Next Step program for students with intellectual disabilities to recruit and screen student applicants wishing to be peer mentors for Next Step students on campus.

The Autism Speaks Transition Tool Kit was created to serve as a guide to assist families on the journey from adolescence to adulthood. Topic areas include: self-advocacy, community living, employment, postsecondary education opprtunities, legal matters, health, resources, and more. 

This Fact Sheet offers tips for families as they prepare to help their child with an intellectual disability think about going to college.

This resource is available in English and Spanish. Click here to view the Spanish language listing for this resource.

The Tips for Transition contains 134 transition tips submitted from all over the country by practitioners. The purpose of the Tips was to identify grassroots transition practices being used by practitioners

The 411 on Disability Disclosure is a free, downloadable workbook for youth with disabilities to help them discuss the components of disclosure, their rights and responsibilities under the law, postsecondary disclosure, disclosure on the job, and disclosure in social and community settings. Includes worksheets to help students think through and document their thoughts.