In 2020, AUCD and the Think College National Coordinating Center (NCC) conducted a national survey that examined how individual DD Councils were supporting postsecondary education for students with IDD at the state level.
This Student and Parent Handbook from The Scholars with Diverse Abilities Program (SDAP) at Appalachian State University provides an example of the kinds of things that can be covered in a handbook of this type, providing clear information about key goals, policies and practices of a postsecondary education program.
Learn about the nitty gritty programming components for inclusive college initiatives from three successful and long-running programs at University of Delaware, Western Carolina University, and Millersville University. Dr. Brian Freedman (University of Delaware), Dr. Kelly Kelley (Western Carolina University), and Jan Bechtel (Millersville University) will describe how their individual programs have managed employment, housing, access to courses and activities, funding and peer mentoring. Join us to learn what it takes to build and maintain a successful program on a college campus!
This presentation shares tips and strategies for securing college and university buy-in when developing a post-secondary program for students with ID. Staff at the REACH Program at the College of Charleston share the process they used as well as lessons learned. Communication strategies and training materials for college faculty and staff are also included.
This is a meeting for the project directors and staff of the federally funded Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities (TPSID) projects. This year's meeting is being held virtually.
Teaching, Including, and Supporting College Students with Intellectual Disabilities provides higher education professionals and proponents of post-secondary education programs for students with intellectual disabilities (ID) with a comprehensive guide to developing new programs and inclusive practices for college students with ID.
At the CEC 2019 conference, Meg Grigal, Debra Hart, and Clare Papay, along with Dana Lattin from University of Kansas presented Higher Education for Students With Intellectual Disability: Profiles of Effective Practice. This presentation covered the latest national data on access to higher education by students with intellectual disability, and provided concrete examples and strategies on access to inclusive college coursework, paid employment, and campus residential options.
This book chapter outlines the experiences in developing CarolinaLIFE, an inclusive postsecondary education (IPSE) program at the University of South Carolina. The authors reflect upon the challenges and outcomes of program development, including the initial challenges of starting an IPSE certificate program at a Carnegie Research Level One institution, the shifting roles of parents, and policies and procedures that have been refined since the program's inception.
In 2018, a student at Kent State University conducted a project to learn promising practices that support the development of a well-functioning and useful advisory board that can serve college programs for students with intellectual disability. In this document, she shares her findings - 15 tips to forming an effective advisory board.
