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To increase opportunities for students with intellectual disabilities to attend inclusive college programs, it is critical to understand current federal and state legislation and to develop relationships with policymakers. This is not a partisan issue. This is about sharing information, educating legislators and understanding how students, advocates, families, professionals and your neighbors can influence the process.
This resource shares the PPT slides from a session at the State of the Art Conference 2021 that shared the current status of the accreditation process as well as the recommendations from the recent Report to Congress. This session was presented by: Martha Mock, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University of Rochester, Debra Hart, Director of Education and Transition, Institute for Community Inclusion, and Stephanie Smith Lee, Senior Policy Advisor, National Down Syndrome Congress.
Inclusive higher education presumes students with intellectual disability are accessing academic courses with their college peers. To ensure these learning experiences are successful, program staff must address questions and concerns with faculty before and throughout the duration of the course.
In November 2021, Think College staff (Meg Grigal and Clare Papay) presented at the State of the Art conference on recent research conducted on college-based transition services (CBTS). College-based transition services (CBTS) are an emerging model for youth with ID ages 18 to 22. This research study used the largest available national dataset (TPSID) to explore the transition experiences of youth with intellectual disability and/or autism who attend CBTS programs.
Starting in 2010, the NCC has been collecting program and student data from Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disability (TPSIDs) for over 10 years. Data, like how programs are staffed and what students do, provide insight into what can help students achieve their desired outcomes of academic inclusion and employment. Join us to learn what we have discovered from a decade of data collection and evaluation.
This is the fourth session in the 5-part series “Get to know the Think College National Coordinating Center."
“Parent College” is a brief 7-step module, developed to support parents to transition their students to college, orient parents to The College of the Florida Keys, and provide information for parents to understand the expectations of the Project ACCESS program.
Easterseals Project Action Consulting, a division of Easterseals, Inc., provides customized training solutions and technical expertise on the Americans with Disabilities Act and accessible transportation for transportation providers, human service agencies, states, regional agencies, tribal nations, and communities with the goal of working together to build accessible communities for all.
The knowledge and attitudes of faculty and instructors greatly influence the experiences of all college students, including college students with ID. As the number of institutions of higher education enrolling students with ID grows, faculty and staff must be prepared to support the learning needs of all of these college students. We conducted qualitative interviews with 10 college faculty teaching inclusive courses at 7 colleges and universities across the U.S.
Presented at the CEC LIVE 2021 conference, Clare Papay and Meg Grigal shared findings from a study that analyzed data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2012 to determine if youth with ID/A are receiving transition services that are aligned with research-based and promising predictors of post-school success as identified by Test et al. (2009) and Mazzotti et al. (2016).
In this Data Blitz session at CEC LIVE 2021, Clare Papay and Meg Grigal shared initial results of a study from the Moving Transition Forward project. The transition experiences of youth in CBTS programs are malleable: that is, these are programmatic factors that can be changed or modified by college/university or school district partner staff to support youth to achieve successful postschool outcomes. The findings of this research highlight several ways in which CBTS programs provide strong transition programming.
