 | 2010 FAST Family Support Survey: National Results
This survey asked parents of transition-aged youth about three things. These were: 1) What information did they need?; 2) What was the quality of information they had?, and; 3) What was the quality of support they were receiving? |
| 2012 National Transition Conference Resources: College and Careers for Youth with Disabilities
This conference was about transition options for students with disabilities. All of the materials are available online. |
| 30 Ways to Shine As a New Employee
A fun and inspiring guidebook for new employees - focusing on the "soft" skills that enhance job performance and retention. |
| 7 Steps for Success: High School to College Transition Strategies for Students With Disabilities
This book is about moving from high school to college. It explains how this works for students with disabilities. |
| A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of Transition-Age Youth withwith Disabilities in Relation to SSI Redetermination (Poicy Research Brief)
This Brief explains transition to adulthood through the lens of SSI eligibility. |
| A Wisconsin Disability Documentation Guide: Helping People with Disabilities Prepare for Post-secondary Education and Training
This document explains about providing proof of disability to post-secondary institutions. |
| ADA & Youth Issues Handouts
PACER staff have written and updated articles on topics of interest to families and Youth related to their rights under the American's with Disabilities Act. All articles are available on the web.
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| Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum: A Parent's Guide to the Cognitive, Social, Physical, and Transition Needs of Teenagers with Autism Spectrum Disorders
This book talks about the developmental stages of a teenager with Asperger Syndrome. |
| Adult Autism and Employment A Guide for Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals
This handbook helps professionals who work with people who have autism to get a job. |
| Advocacy and Supported Employment for People with Disabilities
A guide and workbook for pesons with disabilities who need ideas about ways to find a new job. It is also helpful for service providers who support persons to taking an active role in the job search process. |
| An Inclusive Post-secondary Program at the University of Alberta
A consumer-based evaluation of an inclusive, post-secondary education program in Alberta, Canada. |
| Asperger Syndrome An Owner's Manual 2 for Older Adolescents and Adults: What You, Your Parents and Friends, and Your Employer, Need to Know
This workbook has activities to help youth who have Asperger's syndrome transition into adulthood. |
| Asperger Syndrome and Adolescence: Helping Preteens & Teens Get Ready for the Real World
This book is about the transition to adulthood for those with Asperger's syndrome. |
| Atlas of Literacy and Disability
This book has maps of Canada broken into small areas. Each map shows the number of people with disabilities and the number of people who cannot read or write living in each area. Readers can learn about where help is needed by only looking at the maps. |
| Autism & the Transition to Adulthood Success Beyond the Classroom
A book about the best ways to assist young adults with autism as they move from school to community life. |
| Building Community Connections: Designing a Future That Works
Trainer's manual for a workshop designed to teach individuals with disabilities to utilize their contacts in a job search. |
| Building New Worlds: for Students with Disabilities in Transition from High School to Adult Life
Building New Worlds describes the transition process that students with disabilities and their allies are creating to assure that they will be active participants in family and community life upon graduation from high school. |
| CAREERS & the disABLED
CAREERS & the disABLED, established in 1986, is the nation's first and only career-guidance and recruitment magazine for people with disabilities who are at undergraduate, graduate, or professional levels. Each issue features a special Braille section. |
| Coffee Breaks and Birthday Cakes
This manual provides ways to judge workplace culture. It also has ideas about finding natural ways to support employees who have disabilities. |
| College Guide for Students with Disabilities
This brochure gives students information about college and being a student with a disability. |
| College Planning for Students with Disabilities
This brochure tells students with disabilities the things they need to do to prepare for college. |
| College Success for Students With Learning Disabilities
This books offers tips to help college students with learning disabilities. |
| Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools You Should Know About Even If You're Not a Straight-A Student Revised Edition
This book is about choosing a college. It is written to non-traditional students, including those who have disabilities. |
| Connections in the Workplace
This material teaches about being in the workplace. |
| Developing College Skills in Students with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome
This book talks about the skills needed for a person with Asperger Syndrome to suceed in college. |
| Discovery Vocational Profiles
An aricle about getting to know a person before helping them plan for their lifes. |
| Essentials of Transition Planning
This is the first in a series of books for those working with students with disabilities as they go through the transition process from school to adult life. |
| Evidence-Based Instructional Strategies for Transition
This book talks about ways to help students who have moderate or severe disabilities prepare for adult life. |
| Family Information Guide to Assistive Technology and Transition Planning
A guide for families that focuses on the role of assistive technology during transition times in a child's life. |
| Going to College: Expanding Opportunities for People With Disabilities
This book explains how to prepare to get into college. It also helps someone to understand how to ask for help once you get into school. |
| Graduation Requirements and Diploma Options for Students with Disabilities: What Families and Advocates Need to Know
This is a fact sheet about diploma options for students with disabilities. |
| Growing Up on the Spectrum: A Guide to Life, Love, and Learning for Teens and Young Adults with Autism and Asperger's
This book is about the concerns of, and for adolescents and young adults who are on the autism spectrum. |
| Growing Up: Transition to Adult Life for Students with Disabilities, First Edition
This textbook talks about how schools help students prepare for adult life. |
| Guideposts for Success
This is a downloadable pamphlet about the transition to adulthood for youth with disabilities and what is needed to help insure a bright future for them. |
| Guiding Your Teenager with Special Needs through the Transition from School to Adult Life Tools for Parents
This book is about helping teens with disabilities prepare to become adults. |
| Health Care Transition Guides for Helping Youth Transition from Pediatric to Adult Health Care
These guides advise Doctors and parents on helping youth with disabilities transition from pediatric to adult healthcare systems. |
| High School Transition that Works Learned from Project SEARCH
This book explains a program that helps students move from high school into good jobs. |
| I Am Much More Than You Think: Plain Talk About Me and Other Things You'll Want to Know
An interactive book for children, youth and young adults with disabilities that teaches self-advocacy. |
| Impact: Feature Issue on Parenting Teens and Young Adults with Disabilities
This newsletter/magazine has articles about being the parent of a young adult who has disabilities. Some articles explain research and policy, some give ideas parents can use, and some tell the stories of people. |
| Impact: Feature Issue on Young Adults with Disabilities & Social Security Administration Employment Support Programs
This issue of the Impact newsletter is about government programs to help young people with disabilities transition into adult life. |
| Impact: Issue on Achieving Secondary Education and Transition Results for Students with Disabilities
This newsletter is about what schools and community service organizations need to do to prepare students with disabilities for adulthood. |
| Implementing Person-Centered Planning: Voices of Experience
A book that presents several ways to think about person-centered planning. The book talks about its limitations, the conditions for its success and its contributions. |
| Launching into Adulthood An Integrated Response to Support Transition of Youth with Chronic Health Conditions and Disabilities
This books explains how best to help young adults with disabilities through the transition process. It discusses topics such as transportation, health care, housing and employment. |
| Learn and Earn: Tips for Teens: How high school students can prepare for careers
This fact sheet helps students with disabilities explore career options while in high school. |
| Learning to Work: A Collection of Stories About Life and Work Book
This explains what it is like to work at different jobs. There is a book to read through and a CD-ROM. |
| Life After High School A Guide for Students with Disabilities and Their Families
This book helps prepare students for life after graduation from high school. |
| Life After High School: A Guide for Students with Disabilities and Their Families
This book helps students and their families prepare for life after high school. |
| Life Beyond the Classroom, Transition Strategies for Young People with Disabilities
This book discusses planning, supporting, and facilitating transition from high school to work for young adults with disabilities. |
| Life Beyond the Classroom: Transition Strategies for Young People with Disabilities, Fifth Edition
This book is about ways to help students move from school into adulthood. |
| Made for Good Purpose What Every Parent Needs to Know to Help Their Adolescent with Asperger's, High Functioning Autism or a Learning Difference Become an Independent Adult
This book gives parents ideas about how to help their children become independent adults. |
| More Like a Dance: Whole Life Planning for People with Disabilities
Video and manual about Whole Life Planning |
| My Future, My Plan
This resource helps students and their families plan for life after high school. It includes a DVD, discussion guide, Student Manual and Family/Teacher Guide. |
| Navigating College: A Handbook Written for Autistic Students by Autistic Adults
This handbook was written for people with autism who want to go to college. |
| Negotiating the Special Education Maze A Guide for Parents and Teachers, Fourth Edition
This book explains the special education process and helps parents get their children through it. |
| OCALI Transition to Adulthood Guidelines for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
These guides have information about the transition from high school to adult life. They talk about the additional challenges of young adults who have autism spectrum disorders. |
| On My Own: A Resource Guide for Living Independently
A book for people getting ready to live on their own! Chapters cover moving, safety tips, managing attendants, cooking, etiquette, housekeeping, employment, time management and a resource section. |
| Opening Doors to Postsecondary Education and Training: Planning for Life After High School
This handbook helps high school students plan for attending college. The information is also useful for those who assist and support youth. |
| Path: 2nd Edition: Planning Positive Possible Futures
A guide to exciting, creative, colorful futures planning for families, organizations and schools to build caring "including" places to live, work and learn. |
| Perspectives on Life after High School for Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Findings of a Statewide Survey of Families
This policy brief summarizes a survey about going to college and people with intellectual disabilities. The survey was for parents and professionals. |
| Peter's New Home (From the "Books Beyond Words" series)
This book uses a story with drawings to explain how hard it is to move out of your parent’s house when you grow up. It is easy to understand and can be read together with a helper. |
| Planning for Real Life
A book about transition from school to work for individuals with disabilities. |
| Planning for Success: Supplemental Security Income and Age 18 Disability Redetermination
A manual for transition-aged youth that explains how the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program works for adults. |
| Preparing for Life: The Complete Guide for Transitioning to Adulthood for Those with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome
This book helps young people with Autism or Asperger's Syndrome prepare to become an adult. |
| Preparing Students with Disabilities for College Success
This book explains how to help students with disabilities get ready for college. |
| Realizing the College Dream with Autism or Asperger Syndrome A Parent's Guide to Student Success
This book is a parent's story about her son with ASD who went to college. The entire book can be viewed online. |
| RENEW Facilitator's Manual: A Secondary Transition Model for Youth and Young
This manual outlines a person-centered school-to-career model. It helps youth and young adults with emotional and behavioral support challenges. |
| School Days to Pay Days: An Employment Planning Guide for Families of Young Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
A booklet for families of young adults with disabilities to guide them on how to go from school to work. |
| School to Work Fact Sheet
This fact sheet explains the many options youth have as they make the transition from high school to the adult world.It is available online. |
| Securing a Future for Your Child with a Disability: A Parents' Guide to Adult Services in Arlington County
A document written for parents who have children with disabilities in Arlington County, Virginia. It helps families plan and make decisions for their children as they enter adulthood. |
| Self-Advocacy for Students with Learning Disabilities
Self-Advocacy for Students with Learning Disabilities gives concrete advice to students, parents and counselors about how to select and gain acceptance to college, and how to succeed once the student is enrolled. |
| Social Inclusion at Work
This book gives readers clear ways to help people with disabilities work together with and build friendships with others. It focuses on the places where people work. |
| Special Education Transition Planning A Self-Advocacy Fact Sheet from the Minnesota Disability Law Center
This fact sheet is about making plans for students with disabilities after graduation. |
| Stories of Transitions to the Adult World
This book has stories about four young people who have disabilities. They are working toward post high school goals into adulthood. |
| Successful Transition Programs Pathways for Students With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Second Edition
A book about the best ways to help high school students with disabilities prepare for adult life. |
| Take Charge of Your Job Search
This book helps job seekers develop lifelong skills to find and get jobs. It provides clear, concise advice and activities on how to obtain the right job for unemployed people who face challenges getting into the job market.
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| Take Control of Asperger's Syndrome: The Official Strategy Guide for Teens With Asperger's Syndrome and Nonverbal Learning Disorders
This book is about living with Asperger Syndrome. It is written directly to teens. |
| Ten Things to Think About as You Prepare for Your Transition to Adulthood
This is a "fact sheet" with helpful information for students with disabilities as they go from high school to college. |
| The 411 on Disability Disclosure: A Workbook for Youth with Disabilities
This workbook helps young people make informed decisions about disclosing their disability. |
| The Aspie Teen's Survival Guide: Candid Advice for Teens, Tweens, and Parents
This book is about being a teen with Asperger's syndrome. The author is an adult who has Asperger's. |
| The Autism Transition Guide
This book provides help for parents of children with autism as they transition to adulthood. |
| The Child Preference Indicators
A tool to uncover the true preferences and abilities of children. |
| The Down Syndrome Transition Handbook Charting Your Child’s Course to Adulthood
This book is for parents helping their child with Down Syndrome prepare for adulthood. |
| The New Transition Handbook
This book is about helping students with disabilities successfully transition into adulthood. It is based on recent research. |
| The Power to Spring Up: Postsecondary Education Opportunities for Students with Significant Disabilities
This book is about continuing education and students with disabilities. |
| The Road Ahead: Transition to Adult Life for Persons with Disabilities
This resource provides strategies and ideas for improving the adult lives of people with disabilities, from assessment and instructional strategies, to career development, supported living and postsecondary education. |
| The Way to Work: How to Facilitate Work Experiences for Youth in Transition
A book about the best ways to help young adults with disabilities to find good jobs. It is written for teachers and transition specialists. |
| Think College! Postsecondary Education Options for Students with Intellectual Disabilities
This textbook provides tools to support students with disabilities before, during, and after a successful transition to college. |
| Transition
This is a fact sheet about transition for high school students who have disabilities. |
| Transition Education and Services for Students With Disabilities
This book talks about ways to help young people with disabilities move from school to grown-up life. It is used in college classes. |
| Transition of Youth and Young Adults with Emotional or Behavioral Difficulties
A book about the best ways to help these students as they move from school to work. |
| Transition or Transformation? Helping young people with Autistic Spectrum Disorder Set Out on a Hopeful Road Towards Their Adult Lives
This book talks about helping young people on the Autism Spectrum move from being students in school to adulthood. |
| Transition Planner for Postsecondary Education
This planner helps high school students get ready for college. |
| Transition Planning for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Youth
This book is about assisting students of different cultures as they transition from school to adult life. |
| Transition Planning for Secondary Students with Disabilities (Third Edition)
A book that explains the process of moving from school to working and adult life. |
| Transition Planning For Students With Disabilities: What Educators and Service Providers Can Do
This is a book about helping a student with a disability take the steps from high school graduation to adulthood. |
| Transition Strategies for Adolescents and Young Adults Who Use AAC
A book about helping young adults who use special devices to speak prepare for adulthood. The devices are called "Assisstive and Augmenative Communication (AAC) devices" and include things like Dynavoxes. |
| Transition to Adult Life for Students with Disabilities
This guidebook explains what schools need to do when providing transition services to youth with disabilies. It is written for people who live in Pennsylvania, but most ideas are true around the US. |
| Transition to Postsecondary Education for Students with Disabilities
This book explains the success of students who have disabilities in moving from high school to college. It also talks about the barriers common for these students. |
| Transition Tracker: Independent Living Parent Supplement
This guide helps parents choose a place for their son or daughter to live. |
| Univerity of Illinois opens state-of-the-art dorm for students with disabilities
This online article is about what was thought to be the first fully accessible college dorm in the country. |
| Universal Design for Transition: A Roadmap for Planning and Instruction
A book about transition-age students learning in the same room in different ways. |
| We Can Dream!
This booklet explains how the person-centered planning process can be modified for people with autism. It uses the stories of four young adults. |
| What Do People With Disabilities Really Want?
An article about American businesses and people with disabilities, both as employees and customers. It is based on interviews with the leaders of seven major disability organizations. |
| "Show Me the Money": Flexible Funding for Job Success
This website is intended to help people use flexible funding to find and keep the jobs they want. Flexible funding is one part of self-determination. |
| A Health Care Transition Guide for Young Adults
A website with online training about how healthly living help with being independent and having a good job. The training does not require a lot of reading and works well for people who have learning challenges. |
| A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of Transition-Age Youth withwith Disabilities in Relation to SSI Redetermination (Poicy Research Brief)
This Brief explains transition to adulthood through the lens of SSI eligibility. |
| Adult Services: What Are They? Where Are They?
This is a fact sheet about agencies that can help a student with disabilities move from school to adult life. |
| Aging with Autism: Defining the Future
This is a series of DVDs about autism. |
| Asperger's, Autism & Girls
This DVD is about how having Asperger's Syndrome or Autism is different for girls than boys. |
| Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD)
A membership organization for individuals involved in meeting the needs of persons with disabilities in all areas of higher education. |
| Becoming Independent
This film is about 3 young adults with disabilities, and shows them at work and home. It explains their lives, hopes and dreams for the future. |
| Beyond High School: Strategies for Non-Traditional Students DVD
This DVD show options students have after high school. These include finding a job, becoming an apprentice, and going to college. |
| College Planning for Students with Disabilities
This brochure tells students with disabilities the things they need to do to prepare for college. |
| College Questions for Students with Disabilities
This is a short article with some questions people with disabilities could ask when selecting a college. |
| College Success For Students With Learning Challenges DVD
This DVD talks about how to do well in college with a learning disability. |
| Community Integration Program
This program in Washington state helps students aged 18-21 attend college. The focus is on building independent living skills. |
| Connections in the Workplace
This material teaches about being in the workplace. |
| Continuing Education at the College Level
A web page with information about programs that help people with intellectual disabilities go to college. |
| Disability Friendly Colleges
This web site offers ideas about what the authors believe are the most disability-friendly colleges in the country. It focuses on the needs of people with physical disabilities. |
| Disability Network Newsletter
An electronic (via email) monthly newsletter on issues of disability and employment. |
| DO-IT Streaming Video Presentations with Support Publications
These are short videos about the transition from school to work for young adults with disabilities. |
| Entrepreneurship: A Flexible Route to Economic Independence for People with Disabilities
This web article explains why more and more people with disabilities are starting their own businesses. |
| Facilitating Competitive Employment for Individuals with Disabilities
This CD features six national experts who talk about employment ideas for people with disabilities. |
| Family Information Guide to Assistive Technology and Transition Planning
A guide for families that focuses on the role of assistive technology during transition times in a child's life. |
| FYI Transition
A website for students with disabilities who are about to graduate from high school and their families. It has resources to help with jobs, education and other transition issues. |
| Going to College
This website helps students with disabilities get ready for college. There are many activities and sections for parents and for professionals. |
| Graduating Peter
Story of a young man with Down Syndrome from sixth grade through high school graduation. |
| Health Care Transition
Health Care Transition is a resource and training website to help people with disabilities transition successfully from pediatric to adult healthcare. |
| HEATH Resource Center
HEATH Resource Center: Online Clearinghouse on Postsecondary Education for Individuals With Disabilities offers a breadth of information for students with disabilities who are transitioning into postsecondary education or are already there. |
| HIRED FOR MY ABILITY
This employment video is fast-moving and is designed to encourage employers and inspire people with disabilities. In 8 minutes you go to the jobs of 6 men and women while viewers watch them work as each talk about their jobs. |
| How to Build Partnerships for Career Exploration: Using Job Shadows to Explore the World of Work
A guide that shows high schools how they can set up job shadowing experiences for their students. |
| Impact: Feature Issue on Parenting Teens and Young Adults with Disabilities
This newsletter/magazine has articles about being the parent of a young adult who has disabilities. Some articles explain research and policy, some give ideas parents can use, and some tell the stories of people. |
| Impact: Feature Issue on Young Adults with Disabilities & Social Security Administration Employment Support Programs
This issue of the Impact newsletter is about government programs to help young people with disabilities transition into adult life. |
| Impact: Issue on Achieving Secondary Education and Transition Results for Students with Disabilities
This newsletter is about what schools and community service organizations need to do to prepare students with disabilities for adulthood. |
| Institute for Community Inclusion website
A website of the Institute for Community Inclusion at Children's Hospital,
Harvard |
| Learning Life Skills on the School Bus
This online presentation shows how students who have intellectual disabilities can use school buses to learn how to use public transportation. |
| Learning to Work: A Collection of Stories About Life and Work Book
This explains what it is like to work at different jobs. There is a book to read through and a CD-ROM. |
| Life After High School Transition Tool Kit
This guide has tools & resources for families of youth with disabilities to assist in creating successful transition plans. |
| Look, I'm In College!
The story of what happens when four young men with autism, from a public school, are chosen to pilot a college inclusion program in New York City. |
| Lou Brown Unplugged
This set of DVDs gives Lou Brown's lifetime of experiences in advocating on behalf of people with disabilities in the classroom, workplace, and courtroom. |
| Making the Transition from High School to College: Transition Checklist
This checklist shows how students with disabilities must take different steps to get services in college than in high school. |
| Minimum Wage Increase
These online articles talk about how the minimum wage increase will affect those with disabilities and DSP's |
| Monadnock Center for Successful Transitions (MCST)
A program that helps people with disabilities find new jobs, and in other areas as they transition through life. It also assists businesses and schools. They have a great website. |
| More Like a Dance: Whole Life Planning for People with Disabilities
Video and manual about Whole Life Planning |
| My Future, My Plan
This resource helps students and their families plan for life after high school. It includes a DVD, discussion guide, Student Manual and Family/Teacher Guide. |
| National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET)
The National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET) was established to create opportunities for youth with disabilities to achieve successful futures. |
| National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
NICHCY is the national information center that provides information on disabilities and disability-related issues with special focus on children and youth (birth to age 22).
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| Navigating College: A Handbook Written for Autistic Students by Autistic Adults
This handbook was written for people with autism who want to go to college. |
| Okay, Let's Talk About Me
This film is about Eddie and the things that happen as he turns 18 and prepares to leave school. |
| ONET OnLine - Occupational Information Network
ONET is the US Department of Labor's online Occupational Information Network. |
| Open Futures CD-ROM: Role Models for Youth with Disabilities
This CD-Rom lets young people with disabilities see adults with disabilities in the working world. |
| OPEN FUTURES TRAINING PACKAGE
Program package includes DVD and CD-ROM that will introduce you to dozens of people with disabilities who describe how they found their paths to successful careers and why they love their jobs.
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| Open the Door, Get 'Em A Locker. Educating Nursing Students with Disabilities
This short film is about Victoria, a Registered Hurse who is also a wheelchair-user. The film tells about her experiences as a nursing student and graduation. |
| PACER's National Bullying Prevention Center
A website and resource to help stop bullying. It has a lot of information about how to stop bullying at school. |
| Partners in Employment
This online course helps people with disabilities improve their skills at finding competitive employment. |
| Peter's New Home (From the "Books Beyond Words" series)
This book uses a story with drawings to explain how hard it is to move out of your parent’s house when you grow up. It is easy to understand and can be read together with a helper. |
| Postsecondary Education for Students with Intellectual Disabilities
An article that answers common questions about young adults with intellectual disabilities who want to attend college. |
| Postsecondary Education Resource List
This is a list of websites and resources that have information on college and other opportunities for students with disabilities after they graduate high school. |
| Profiles in Achievement: Amazing People with Learning Differences DVD
This DVD has stories about successful people who have difficulties with learning. |
| Project Goal/ Electronic Resource Guide
An electronic resource guide for persons with disabilities and their families. |
| Ready or Not
This film is about three high school seniors who have different disabilities. The film follows them as they graduate and make plans for their future. |
| Resource Guide on Higher Education for People with Disabilities
This web site has links to information for students with disabilities who want to go to college. |
| Self-Management and Self-Determination Strategies:Promoting Independence in the Transition to Adult Life
An online course to teach you how to promote transition-aged students' self-management and self-determination skills. |
| Stories of Transitions to the Adult World
This book has stories about four young people who have disabilities. They are working toward post high school goals into adulthood. |
| Students with Disabilities Preparing for Postsecondary Education: Know Your Rights and Responsibilities
This web page explains how students with disabilities prepare to go to college. |
| Successful Bridges: Growing Up With Spina Bifida DVD
This DVD explains Spina Bifida through typical life transitions. |
| Taking Charge:Life-Changing Tools for People with Disabilities
A new self-taught course, offered on-line, provides the tools for people with disabilities to set and achieve their personal and professional goals. |
| The Asperger's Difference
This DVD tells the stories of three young people who have Asperger's syndrome. They are good role models for others. |
| The Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
The Job Accommodation Network (JAN) is a free consulting service designed to increase the employability of people with disabilities. |
| The Ties that Bind
This is a film about the struggles of a young man and his family as he transitions to a more independent life. |
| Think College
This website has information and links about helping people with disabilities attend college. It has separate areas for use by students, family members and professionals. |
| Through the Same Door: Inclusion Includes College
A 25-minute film about Micah Fialka-Feldman, a college student at Michigan's Oakland University, who has a cognitive disability. This film highlights inclusion in college settings. |
| Through the Same Door: Inclusion Includes College
This DVD tells the story of Janice's son, Micah. Micah has an intellectual disability and is going to college. |
| Transition Coalition
An organization that provides information and support on topics related to the transition from school to adult life for youth with disabilities. |
| Transition from School to Adult Life for Students with Disabilities, Ages 14 - 22
This easy to understand fact sheet explains the transition process from age 14 until graduation. It also lists a lot of websites that might be helpful in making choices for life after high school. |
| Transition Monday Bulletins
The Transition Monday Bulletin is a weekly electronic newsletter that reviews issues regarding transition-aged youth with disabilities. |
| Transition of Students with Disabilities to Postsecondary Education: A Guide for High School Educators
This web based publication explains the rights of students with disabilities in education after high school. It is not specific to students with ID/DD. |
| Transition to Adulthood: Guidelines for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Second Edition
These four booklets are a resource in supporting youth who are on the autism spectrum as they plan for adult life. They are available online for free. |
| Transition to Work and Self-Sufficiency DVD's
These six DVDs are about going to work. |
| Transition, It's a Brave New World
This online article is an interview about the transition to adult life for young people who have disabilities. |
| Transition: The Missing Pieces
This CD-ROM is about how transition to adulthood can be especially difficult for students who have Asperger's syndrome. |
| Utah Young Adult Panel 2007
A video of a panel of youth with disabilities in Utah, and their recommendations to doctors when transitioning youth with disabilities. |
| Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) RRTC Live Webcast Series
A series of presentations about employment issues and people with disabilities. There is a schedule of upcoming presentations you can attend on the internet. There are many that have already been held but you can watch on the internet anytime. |
| We Connect Now
This organization is for college students who have disabilities. |
| What Does Normal Mean?
A compelling documentary film about the “inclusion” of children with disabilities in public schools. The film follows seven children— elementary to high-schoolers— with a broad range of disabilities, over an academic year. |
| Whose Life is it Anyway? A Look at Person-Centered Planning & Transition
A CD-ROM is about person-centered planning for transition-aged students. |
| Your Employment Selections (YES!) Program
A reading free CD ROM- based program, showing motion video of 120 jobs for youth and adults with disabilities. |
| "Show Me the Money": Flexible Funding for Job Success
This website is intended to help people use flexible funding to find and keep the jobs they want. Flexible funding is one part of self-determination. |
| A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of Transition-Age Youth withwith Disabilities in Relation to SSI Redetermination (Poicy Research Brief)
This Brief explains transition to adulthood through the lens of SSI eligibility. |
| Academy of Adult Learning
This program introduces people with intellectual disabilities to college. It is located at Temple University in Pennsylvania. |
| An Inclusive Post-secondary Program at the University of Alberta
A consumer-based evaluation of an inclusive, post-secondary education program in Alberta, Canada. |
| Asbury College Connection
This is a program to help students with developmental disabilities go
to college. They attend classes, participate in campus activities,
and live in dorms. This program is at Asbury College in Wilmore,
Kentucky. |
| Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD)
A membership organization for individuals involved in meeting the needs of persons with disabilities in all areas of higher education. |
| Building Sustainable Business Partnerships in Supported Employment
The purpose of this two-year training and technical assistance project in Illinois was to train 20-30 professionals from ten supported employment agencies. The intended outcome was 150 new jobs. The actual outcome was more than 200 jobs.
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| Changing Landscapes - Supporting Artists with Disabilities
A program at the University of Minnesota that displays art by artists with disabilities. New works of art are displayed about every four months. |
| College Planning for Students with Disabilities
This brochure tells students with disabilities the things they need to do to prepare for college. |
| College Prep/ICI
A service that helps high school students with disabilities in Minnesota become prepared for college. |
| Community Integration Program
This program in Washington state helps students aged 18-21 attend college. The focus is on building independent living skills. |
| Connections in the Workplace
This material teaches about being in the workplace. |
| Consortium for Postsecondary Education for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
A partnership of researchers working to see that all people with disabilities have the chance to attend college. The group is doing this by building new ideas that will help both students with disabilities and colleges to be successful. |
| Creating Post-secondary Education Opportunities for Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities
A task-force program to support people with intellectual disabilities in Tennessee to go to college. |
| Dimensions
An organization that supports people with intellectual disabilities and autism in England and South Wales.
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| Disability Friendly Colleges
This web site offers ideas about what the authors believe are the most disability-friendly colleges in the country. It focuses on the needs of people with physical disabilities. |
| Disabled Businesspersons Association (DBA)
The Disabled Businesspersons Association (DBA) connects entrepreneurs with disabilities with mentors to guide them through the process of developing and implementing a successful business. |
| Do-It Program (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology)
The Do-It Program assists people with disabilities in successfully pursuing academics and careers. |
| DO-IT Streaming Video Presentations with Support Publications
These are short videos about the transition from school to work for young adults with disabilities. |
| GCDD Make It Real
An initiative from the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities. Its purpose is to help people with disabilities in Georgia lead real lives by accomplishing goals in six major focus areas: Community, Careers, Homes, Learning, Supports and Influence. |
| Health Care Transition
Health Care Transition is a resource and training website to help people with disabilities transition successfully from pediatric to adult healthcare. |
| Inmate to Citizen Research Demonstration Project
This New York project supports the re-entry of inmates with special needs into community membership. It uses person-centered practices to develop a system of services and supports to help that re-entry.
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| Institute for Innovative Transition
This agency works to make sure that youth with disabilities are able to move smoothly from high school to adult life. It serves Monroe County in New York state. It has information for agencies, families, and people with developmental disabilities. |
| Integrated Behavioral Systems (IBS)
This company helps school districts improve services for students who have autism. They also can help community agencies. |
| King County School-to-Work Program
A program that helps students with disabilities find jobs and begin working as they finish high school. It is located in King County, Washington state. |
| Minnesota Work Incentives Connection
This program provides information to people with disabilities about how working will affect their benefits so they can make an informed decision in this area of life. |
| National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET)
The National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET) was established to create opportunities for youth with disabilities to achieve successful futures. |
| National Consortium on Leadership and Disability for Youth
A Center that provides resources, information and training for youth with disabilities. The Center is led by youth with disabilities. |
| National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
NICHCY is the national information center that provides information on disabilities and disability-related issues with special focus on children and youth (birth to age 22).
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| New England ADA Center
New England ADA Center is part of the ADA National Network. It gives information on the ADA to businesses, government, and individuals on a local and national level. |
| Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP)
ODEP, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, provides national leadership to increase employment opportunities for adults and youth with disabilities while striving to eliminate barriers to employment. |
| PACER's National Bullying Prevention Center
A website and resource to help stop bullying. It has a lot of information about how to stop bullying at school. |
| Partners for Youth with Disabilities
Mentoring programs for youth with disabilities. |
| Partners in Employment
This online course helps people with disabilities improve their skills at finding competitive employment. |
| Performing Arts Studio West
This is a performing arts studio for people with developmental disabilities in Los Angeles. They provide training, career management, and on location support to help actors in film, television and commercials. |
| Project C3 (Conecting Youth to Communities and Careers)
This program helps improve postsecondary outcomes for students |
| Project Goal/ Electronic Resource Guide
An electronic resource guide for persons with disabilities and their families. |
| Project Income
Project Income helps people with disabilities find interesting jobs when other employment options have been unsuccessful. It is located in Maryland. |
| Project Search
This program helps youth, young adults and adults with disabilities to prepare for and succeed on the job. It is part of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Ohio. |
| Rehabilitation Renaissance Project
An employment support program in greater Detroit area and throughout Michigan |
| Scholars With Diverse Abilities, Appalachian State University
This program provides students with intellectual disabilities the college experience. It is a 2-year program. |
| STEPS Forward
This program helps students with intellectual disabilities go to college. It was started by parents, and is located in British Columbia. |
| The Future of Children: Special Education for Students with Disabilities
"The Future of Children" is an initiative that disseminates timely information on major issues related to children’s well-being through a journal and other publications.
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| The Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
The Job Accommodation Network (JAN) is a free consulting service designed to increase the employability of people with disabilities. |
| The Karen Gaffney Foundation
The Karen Gaffney Foundation works toward the full inclusion of people with Down Syndrome. |
| The Lawrence B.Taishoff Center
A center at Syracuse University in New York. It works toward full and equal participation of college students with disabilities in all areas of college life. |
| Training Grounds
A coffee bar in Jefferson County, Colorado. Its workers are people with disabilities who gain on-the-job training. |
| TransCen, Inc.
An organization that studies school to work transition for youth with disabilities. TransCen also provides direct support to youth in its San Fransisco office. It is dedicated to improving educational and employment outcomes for youth with disabilities. |
| Transition Coalition
An organization that provides information and support on topics related to the transition from school to adult life for youth with disabilities. |
| Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities (VESID)
A program in New York state to help people with disabilities of all ages. It shares information about jobs, education and independent living. |
| We Connect Now
This organization is for college students who have disabilities. |
| Workforce Recruitment Program
This program brings federal agencies together with students who have disabilities and are looking for a summer internship or a permanent job. |
| Youth Organizing! Disabled & Proud
A program that connects, organizes and educates youth with disabilities. |
