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Guidance provided by the US Department of Education, Federal Student Aid, for the completion of the electronic application to participate in federal student aid, which is the process used to submit a Comprehensive Transition and Postsecondary Program (CTP) application.
The Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is dedicated to support for students with disabilities and learning differences. In the EALA podcast, host and EALA founder Aurora Dreager discusses the work of the EALA partner organizations, big changes in education policy, and popular topics in special education.
This publication features critical data points highlighting the positive effects of postsecondary education on employment for individuals with intellectual disability. The data show that people with intellectual disability who attend college have higher employment rates and increased earnings.
Families often think that college is not an option for students with intellectual disabilities. But today, there are a growing number of colleges offering inclusive higher education options.
Here & Now’s Deepa Fernandes learns more with Cate Weir, a program director at Think College, part of the Institute for Community Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Date re-introduced: 3/27/24
Status: Referred to Senate and Assembly Higher Education Committees
Flexible Supports for College Success Presented by Maria Paiewonsky, Ashley Luce*, and Luke Saint-Amour, this webinar covered topics such as supported education, student engagement in college classes, determining accommodation needs, campus resources, and intensive supports. The presentation emphasized the importance of determining the appropriate level of support for student engagement and satisfaction in college classes. It included information on typical classroom supports, academic accommodations, educational coaching, and peer mentoring.
Many students, including those with intellectual disability, benefit from explicit campus navigation and acclimation training in their new campus community. This kind of training can help prepare students for campus and community involvement. Learning campus navigation skills can benefit incoming college students, and can generalize to other new environments, resulting in increased independent community access. This publication summarizes the available research on teaching campus navigation and makes recommendations on how and when to teach these skills to students.
Faculty perspectives on teaching students with intellectual disability are important to consider as college programs continue to grow and more students are enrolling. To ensure faculty experiences are considered in program development and improvement, we conducted a brief literature review of postsecondary education-related articles, focusing on those that included the perspectives of faculty who taught students with intellectual disability at colleges or universities.
Vocational rehabilitation (VR) professionals can (and should!) "Think Higher. Think College." In this video, hear from two VR professionals from Oklahoma and Indiana about ways they have worked with students with intellectual disability to set and achieve postsecondary goals of college and work. The addition of VR professionals to the inclusive postsecondary education is critical. Use this video to educate professionals in K-12, vocational rehabilitation, and inclusive postsecondary education.
This article published in the International Review of Research on Developmental Disabilities (IRRDD) offers a comprehensive overview of the benefits of postsecondary education (PSE) for adults with intellectual and developmental disability. It describes the existing landscape of the current 339 PSE options offered by colleges and universities in the US and the relevant legislative foundations supporting program development.
