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.
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This slide deck explains the basics of college programs, shares the national landscape of programs, and includes multiple graphics sharing data about current college programs and student outcomes. Also included are slides that share tips for a successful meeting with administrators, and a listing of additional program development resources. This can be used in whole or in part to frame an introductory presentation to college administrators or others who need to be introduced to college programs and why they are a good idea.
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National Coordinating Center
“Student Perspective: Using AI to Create Individualized, Accessible Reading Materials,” a PowerPoint presentation by Sarah Chew and Bridget Brown, with Marissa Bloodgood and
Hosted by the Tarjan Center at UCLA in March 2024, this virtual webinar was led by Lori Cooney, program director of Inclusive Education and Curriculum Design at the
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Inclusive Higher Education Network
Some colleges and universities across the United States have received money to create and run Transition and Postsecondary Education Programs for Students with Intellectual Disability, or TPSID model demonstration programs. These colleges and universities report data, or information, on their programs and students to the National Coordinating Center. In this session, presenters from the National Coordinating Center will share data on how TPSID programs work and the kinds of activities students participate in, such as taking college courses and working.
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National Coordinating Center
When state agencies and other groups work together with college programs for students with intellectual/developmental disabilities, everyone benefits. Working together helps everyone involved so agencies and other groups can learn about each other while they help students. Instead of working on their own, agencies and groups that start working together find new ways to help students with intellectual/developmental disabilities that go to college. This session explained how Vocational Rehabilitation, Workforce Innovation Boards, and others are working together for students.
This slide deck shares information that postsecondary education programs for students with intellectual disability can use to understand the current status of program accreditation and learn about tools that are available from Think College to support programs in becoming accreditation-ready. Future steps to refine and finalize an accrediting process and develop an accrediting agency are also shared.
The Think College team presented a poster at the AUCD Annual Conference from November 13-16, 2022 in Washington D.C. This resource listing includes a variety of resources that accompanied the poster.
The poster is about state funding for postsecondary education for students with intellectual disability. It covers different types of legislative funding (student funding, program funding) and how UCEDDs have been involved with state legislation.
The Co-Op Program at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) recently developed and had approved the first pre-baccalaureate certificate offered by the University of Illinois state system. In this slide deck, Kaitlin Stober, Program Coordinator of University Illinois Chicago’s Co-Op Program, outlines her team’s approach to building a meaningful credential for students in inclusive postsecondary education. The Co-Op Program was funded during the 2020 TPSID cycle, and started operating as an official, credit-bearing university certificate in Fall 2022.
A collaborative model of professional development, using principles of collective inquiry, coaching, reflection and co-writing, has resulted in an online training sequence for three key groups who offer and support college-based transition services. These include college program coordinators, special education administrators and transition staff, and coaches and mentors. Presenters shared strategies and co-authored practitioner materials This session was presented by Think College staffers Maria Paiewonsky & Ty Hanson.
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National Coordinating Center