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The South Carolina state budget includes funds to provide needs-based financial aid to students with ID enrolled in one of South Carolina’s CTPs. They are disbursed by the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education. The state budget also allocates lottery scholarship funds to support students with ID who have financial needs and are enrolled in a CTP. Each student may receive a scholarship, called the College Transition Program Scholarship, of up to $5,000 per academic year. In FY 2020-21 and 2021-22, $750,000 was awarded to support needs-based scholarships for students with ID.

One way to help students with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD) succeed in their college and career endeavors is to provide training and support to secondary staff working with transition-aged students and professionals providing services in college. Think College, in collaboration with the Florida Center for Students with Unique Abilities, created two self-paced learning modules for these groups. Numerous resources have been included throughout each module.

Signed in November 2021, this established the North Carolina Comprehensive Transition (CTP) Postsecondary Scholarship Program. The new scholarship program covers cost of attendance for NC students with intellectual disability (ID) enrolled in current and future CTPs within the UNC system (all North Carolina public universities). Individual institutions may determine the individual size of scholarships to give students based upon need and whether they have received other scholarships that will help cover cost of attendance.

This guide from the Youth Employment Solutions Center shares how policy initiatives in the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century (Perkins V) Act that can be leveraged to support students with disabilities in career and technical education at the state and the local level.

The goal of this brief is to educate parents and supporters of youth in transition about guardianship and alternatives to guardianship. The brief presents three main themes: the reasons people pursue guardianship, the negative effects of guardianship on the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), and the strategies and recommendations about alternatives to guardianship.

This Highlights document was created with data from the Annual Report of the Cohort 3 TPSID Model Demonstration Projects (Year 1, 2020-2021) for those who are interested in the most critical statistics from the report, or are sharing with a broad audience. It features bold graphics and brief summaries of program and student data, including exit and post-exit outcomes.

This replication guide is a two-section guide. Section one is Launching a Postsecondary Career and Technical Education Program for Students with an Intellectual and Developmental Disability in Florida’s Technical College System: Institutional Leaders and Policymakers Guide.

For parents, families, and caregivers of youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), reaching the age of majority is an important milestone. In most US states, the age of majority is when many legal rights parents have under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) transfer to young adults. The way that transfer of rights discussions between schools and families happen can differ from state to state and school to school.

Postsecondary education (PSE) programs allow for college students with intellectual disability to experience a higher level of autonomy in choice making, which they may not have experienced in their family home or high school. This includes choice making related to romantic and sexual relationships. The Continuum of Support for Intimacy Knowledge in College Survey (CoSIK-C) was used to examine how PSE programs support college students in building their intimacy knowledge.