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This chapter from Think College!: Postsecondary Options for Students with Intellectual Disabilities, includes guidance for families as they consider college options. There is information about opportunities and challenges, what to expect, what motivates a student to go to college, how best to navigate the process, and more. Throughout this chapter there are vignettes from students and families to illustrate the points made.

Without a clear connection between postsecondary education experiences and adult employment and life goals, youth with ID are vulnerable to unemployment and underemployment. This chapter in Think College!: Postsecondary Options for Students with Intellectual Disabilities outlines and discusses the rationale and strategies for developing meaningful, targeted work and community participation experiences. 

The final chapter of Think College! Postsecondary Education Options for Students with Intellectual Disabilities highlights the impact of serving this student population will have at state and national levels, how to align PSE for students with ID with other higher education initiatives, and implications for students, research, and practice. 

This chapter from Think College! Postsecondary Education Options for Students with Intellectual Disabilities addresses the importance of addressing all aspects of employment and suggests ways that employment might be better integrated into postsecondary programs.

This chapter from Think College!: Postsecondary Education Options for Students with Intellectual Disabilities, shares key components and things to consider when developing a dual enrollment college program.

The purpose of this chapter in Think College! Postsecondary Education Options for Students with Intellectual Disabilities is to provide professionals, individuals with disabilites, and their families with information from a postsecondary perspective that will assist them in creating a good fit between the goals of young adults with ID and those of institutions of higher education.

This chapter from Think College! Postsecondary Education Options for Students with Intellectual Disabilities describes the perspective of school systems as they approach the prospect of creating PSE experiences for students with intellectual disabilities. Issues related to planning, implementing, and evaluating services in PSE settings are addressed, and strategies for overcoming challenges are offered.

This chapter in Think College! Postsecondary Education Options for Students with Intellectual Disabilities reviews the model frameworks of PSE options and service delivery models that are used to serve students with ID in PSE. Additionally, there are some program profiles to illustrate how the models differ.

This chapter in Think College! Postsecondary Education Options for Students with Intellectual Disabilities provides the reader with a description of the most relevant current federal legislation and initiatives that support or have the potential to support access to PSE for individuals with ID and, it is hoped, promote greater utilization of these options. Systems-change efforts in New Jersey, South Carolina, and Massachusetts are also discussed, as are recommendations for policy, practices, and systems change.

This introductory chapter in Think College! Postsecondary Education Options for Students with Intellectual Disabilities provides readers with a description of the students and postsecondary education (PSE) services that this book focuses on, a historical and philosophical basis for why students with intellectual disabilities (ID) desire postsecondary opportunities, and changes that have occurred in special education that have led to this desire. Some of the relevant advances in research and practice are also discussed.