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This resource includes the captioned recording and the transcript for the Expanding the Dialogue on Autism: Reflections on Research & Real Life in Employment webinar. This is the second event in a series of online talks from the Institute for Community Inclusion.
Once Upon a Gene is a podcast hosted by Effie Parks. In her podcast, she speaks to others about her famiilie's journey through life with her son's rare disease.
This resource shares a webinar transcript and PPT from a webinar presented by Cate Weir and Clare Papay of Think College in 2018, data are presented on the extent to which colleges and universities are offering credentials to students with ID and the types available. A Credential Action Planning Tool that can be used to develop meaningful credentials for students with ID is discussed.
Each academic year, the Think College National Coordinating Center (NCC) collects data on the programmatic strategies used to prepare students for work and to support them with finding and keeping jobs. Additionally, the NCC collects information on any career development experiences and any paid jobs students hold during the year. In this report, we summarize student participation in career development experiences and paid employment in 2015–2016.
This Think College Transition Student Profile features Robert, his love of theater, and how he worked with his parents, academic advisor, and educational coach to set concrete goals for transition and postsecondary education. Robert continues to enjoy a successful, productive experience at Bridgewater State University, as he works toward his career and personal goals.
This is the first issue of Think College Transition Student Profiles. This publication tells the story of Rachel, a student at Holyoke Community College in Massachusetts. Rachel and her team did some person-centered planning to determine what Rachel’s goals were, and then the Rachel worked closely with an academic advisor to be sure her goals were met. This profile highlights the positive results that can come from collaborative planning and supports between college, local school district, and service providers.
This resource includes the captioned recording and the transcript for the Expanding the Dialogue on Autism: Reflections on Research & Real Life in Education webinar. Featured on this panel were Maria Paiewonsky, program coordinator and transition specialist at ICI; Ned Pavlak, a student at Holyoke Community College (HCC); Julia Landau, Director of Mass Advocates for Children; and, Stephen Shore, professor, advocate, author, and international speaker on education, advocacy, disclosure, and more.
Get Ready for College: A Resource for Teens with Disabilities is a free virtual course for high school students and others who have an interest in learning about the transition to college. It was developed by the Center on Transition at Virginia Commonwealth University and features a series of lessons focusing on a different aspect in the college preparation, selection, and disability services process. If students with ID/DD are accessing the course, we recommend that it be facilitated, as piloting of the tool showed that to be helpful to reinforce the content.
This set of slides and recording accompany the February 20, 2018 webinar presentation called Non-degree Credentials of Value. We start with the basics: what are credentials and what are the different types? How do they work? Who offers them? Join Bryan Wilson, Director of the Workforce Data Quality Campaign, a project of the National Skills Coalition, to learn more about credentials and what they can mean for students with intellectual disabilities.
This resource includes the Power Point presentation for the webinar, Capitalizing on Inclusive Dual Enrollment Experiences for IEP Planning & Progress Monitoring. This webinar provided an overview of numerous ways that IEP team members are capitalizing on these college experiences to develop IEPs that reflect these rich transition experiences as well as to communicate the progress students are making on measurable postsecondary goals.
