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This publication features tons of helpful advice for students who are ready to begin the college search. Madison, Kaethe, Maria, George, and Santi are former college students who share honest stories and things to think about when considering college, such as the location and size of the college, making good choices, social opportunities & peer mentors, being included, and more.

This video, produced for the 2019 Annual CEC Meeting, highlights the growth in postsecondary options for students with intellectual disability (ID) over the last 15 years. Featured in the video are interviews with Think College Co-Directors, Debra Hart & Meg Grigal, as well as staff members, Cate Weir and Maria Paiewonsky. Other valued members of the inclusion community such as Dan Habib, Martha Mock, and leaders at a variety of inclusive colleges share their perspectives on why college is important for students with ID.

This brief, written by Think College partners at the Pacer Center, focuses on alternatives to guardianship. The authors take care to explain the different options available to families, and what the ramifications are for those options. In particular, this publication explains details and possible outcomes for power of attorney, supported decision-making, and guardianship. Examples are shared, as well as many additional resources.

Powerpoint from a presentation describing a qualitative study investigating faculty experiences in teaching students with intellectual disability in their college classes, including benefits, challenges and strategies for providing effective instruction to students with ID.  Presented at the 2019 AHEAD Conference.

A new population of college students is emerging on campuses across the United States: students with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD). With this new and growing population of college students, an important question persists: are their health and wellness needs being identified and met? The authors concluded that research on this unique population should continue, and the etiology of health and wellness issues of college students with IDD should be established to develop and implement evidence-based programing.

The Fall 2019 Research Summit focused on using the RSA 911 Dataset to inform our understanding of higher education for students with ID. Tom Sannicandro, JD, Ph.D., Director of Massachusetts Association of Community Colleges, and Stormy Miller, Ed.D, Director of Student Services Student Accessibility and Psychological Services at College of Marin; Mark Tucker, Ph.D., CRC, Assistant Professor, Department of Administration, Rehabilitation; Postsecondary Education at San Diego State University / Interwork Institute, will present their work.

This book will introduce the reader to international perspectives associated with post-secondary school education for students with intellectual disability attending university settings. Examples of students with intellectual disability gaining their right to full inclusion within university settings are outlined, as well as the barriers and facilitators of such innovation. The four parts of the text will act as a reader for all supporters of inclusion at the university level. The first part examines the philosophical, theoretical and rights-based framework of inclusion.

Inclusive Postsecondary Education curriculums are university designed and aimed at giving access to a liberal arts education for students with intellectual disability. This bound article is presented in order to promote fully inclusive postsecondary education and to assist others in implementing their own fully inclusive postsecondary education initiatives. A Passion For Full Inclusion and the model initiative is grounded in a disability studies framework, secured by the theories of Dr.

Teaching, Including, and Supporting College Students with Intellectual Disabilities provides higher education professionals and proponents of post-secondary education programs for students with intellectual disabilities (ID) with a comprehensive guide to developing new programs and inclusive practices for college students with ID.

Think College REPORTS present descriptive data in narrative or tabular form to provide timely information to researchers, practitioners, and policymakers for review and use. This report provides program- and student-level data reported by TPSIDs (Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities) during the 2018-2019 academic year. Program data reflect program characteristics, academic access, supports for students, and integration of the program within the institute of higher education during the fourth year of FY 2016–2020 funding.