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The purpose of this Quick Guide from the National Technical Assistance Center on Transition: The Collaborative (NTACT:C) is to provide an overview of Career and Technical Education (CTE) and strategies to improve accessibility for students with disabilities in CTE classrooms and programs. This is a helpful resource for all CTE faculty members in designing high-quality and accessible classroom and work-based experiences.

This legislation, signed in June of 2022, establishes the Louisiana Postsecondary Inclusive Education Fund, which will finance the creation of comprehensive inclusive postsecondary education programs at all of Louisiana’s public postsecondary education institutions. The programs must be federally approved, and provide postsecondary degree, certificate, and apprenticeship programs aimed at promoting independent living and employment opportunities. Institutions can use money from the Fund to create, coordinate, and expand their inclusive programs.

This legislation, signed into law in 2022, expands the eligibility terms of the Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship Program to include Kentucky students with intellectual disabilities enrolled in comprehensive transition and postsecondary programs (CTPs).

Introduced in 2022, but not passed, this legislation directs the Iowa College Student Aid Commission to create a scholarship program to support individuals with intellectual, development or learning disabilities. Applicants must be at least 18 years of age and enrolled in an Iowa-based comprehensive transition and postsecondary program (CTP) approved by the U.S. Department of Education. The Iowa College Student Aid Commission will administer the program and establish evaluation criteria for scholarship applications. Iowa applicants will receive priority in scholarship awardee selection.

Think College REPORTS present descriptive data in narrative and 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 2020-2021 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 first year of FY 2020-2025 funding.

Think College interviewed Wright Villani for the March 2022 newsletter. Wright lives in Richmond, Virginia and goes to Virginia Commonwealth University ACE-IT in college.

During a Student Credentials Affinity Group meeting, Dr. Christi Kasa from University of Colorado Colorado Springs presented on Colorado’s portable credential available at 3 of Colorado’s inclusive postsecondary education (IPSE) programs. The process and philosophy behind this portable credential and the program of study it represents is provided. The presenters also share how the students are able to take courses for credit through a transcript designation of ‘modified course.’ A sample transcript is shared.

Drs. Lisa Dieker and Rebecca Hines, professors at the University of Central Florida in the College of Community Innovation and Education, have worked with schools and parents across the country. They take a fun and informal look at "practical" situations from teachers, parents, and people with disabilities. Our approach is fast, flexible thinking about "real" life problems. This podcast is not about the "legal" approach, but our best advice from both personal and professional experience.

NTACT:C partners have developed this document to help compare and contrast the transition services requirements for Education, Vocational Rehabilitation (VR), including Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) consistent with the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) and the Rehabilitation Act as amended by WIOA.  Organized by major parts of these laws, this document outlines how each entity addresses:

Podcast host Annette Hines (from Special Needs Companies) speaks with Cate Weir, program director and Debra Hart, co-principal investigator of Think College. Learning does not stop at age 18 for those with intellectual disabilities and offering those who have entered adulthood an opportunity for growth in over one hundred college programs is what Think College is all about.