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Youth with intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder increasingly access postsecondary education in many countries around the world. To ensure students are ready to access these options, preparation for postsecondary education must be part of their transition services.
Staff Perceptions on Factors Affecting Access to Intimacy Education and Intimate Experiences for College Students With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities reveals that a majority of staff members at inclusive postsecondary education (IPSE) programs for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) who participated in a national survey agreed that their students think learning about intimacy is a priority, but feel their students lack confidence to ask for support in learning more about sex and dating.
Esta guía está diseñada para dar a conocer la educación postsecundaria inclusiva (IPSE), o las opciones universitarias para estudiantes con discapacidad intelectual (ID). En esta guía, encontrará todo lo que necesita saber sobre la IPSE en un formato fácil de leer, con consejos útiles, información y recursos del sitio web de Think College. Aprenderá qué es la IPSE, cómo incluyen las universidades a los estudiantes con ID, y cómo encontrar una universidad y presentar su solicitud, al igual que cómo pagarla.
When state agencies and other groups work together with college programs for students with intellectual/developmental disabilities, everyone benefits. Working together helps everyone involved so agencies and other groups can learn about each other while they help students. Instead of working on their own, agencies and groups that start working together find new ways to help students with intellectual/developmental disabilities that go to college. This session explained how Vocational Rehabilitation, Workforce Innovation Boards, and others are working together for students.
This publication provides an explanation of the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act, or Perkins V, which is the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act (2006), and the benefits it provides to students with intellectual disabilities. There are many implications for students transitioning from secondary to postsecondary school who are pursuing career and technical education; those are detailed in this Fast Fact.
Completing a program of study and earning a credential is a mark of student perseverance and success. Student completion rates can tell us how well colleges and universities support students in completing an educational program. A research study by the US Department of Education reported students who completed non-degree certificate programs had higher rates of employment than peers who did not (Burns et al., 2020), and found 52% of students who began a non-degree certificate program completed it within three years.
The poster is about Think College Search, a directory of college programs for students with intellectual disability in the US. It includes information about the number of programs across the country, financial aid, housing options, and certificates students earn. It also shares how Think College collects information from programs for the College Search tool.
The Think College team presented this poster at the AUCD Annual Conference in Washington DC in 2023. This resource listing includes a downloadable copy of the poster and text only version of the poster.
The website for the Think College public awareness campaign, “Think Higher.
On this podcast, Dr. Martha Mock, professor and director of the Center for Disability and Education at University of Rochester and chair of Think College National Coordinating Center Accreditation Workgroup, shares what the workgroup has been doing to develop and launch accrediting processes for college and university programs for students with ID. Topics covered in the podcast include:
This video shares a 20 minute video interview with Dr. Kelly Kelley of Western Carolina University. WCU's University Participant program became the first accredited program for students with ID in the country in March, 2023. In this interview, Kelly shares about her experience during the accreditaton process and offers insights and tips to other program directors.
This video was recorded for and shared at the 2023 TPSID Project Director Meeting in Portland OR., July 2023.
