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.
Transportation
This presentation shares an overview of My Maps and describes how it can be used to create and customize maps to help students ID physically navigate their campus and beyond.
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Easterseals Project Action Consulting, a division of Easterseals, Inc., provides customized training solutions and technical expertise on the Americans with Disabilities Act and accessible transportation for transportation providers, human service agencies, states, regional agencies, tribal nations, and communities with the goal of working together to build accessible communities for all.
EVERY RIDE COUNTS is the National Aging & Disability Transportation Center (NADTC) comprehensive publicity campaign to promote the availability and accessibility of transportation options for older adults, people with disabilities and caregivers in communities around the country. The campaign’s carefully crafted messages and materials include designated spaces for your local organization’s logo and information, enabling you to customize them for your community.
The campaign overview is available here in English and Spanish.
The National Aging and Disability Transportation Center (NADTC) promotes the availability and accessibility of transportation options that meet the needs of older adults, people with disabilities, and caregivers.
The mission of NADTC is to:
This report, funded by the South Carolina College Transition Connection, outlines issues related to transportation needs of individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities. It provides a literature review, describes common barriers and potential solutions, and offers travel assessment and training resources.