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Career Readiness for Students with Disabilities: The Self-Employment Option

If you teach young adults with disabilities, you’re playing a vital role in preparing them for life beyond the classroom. You’re probably always on the lookout for ways you can boost their college and career readiness and get them ready to lead full, self-determined lives. Helping them explore employment options is a big part of that, and that’s what this post is all about. Read More

Inclusion QuickTips: Disclosing a Disability

If you teach and support young adults with disabilities, you might get the question “when and how should I disclose my disability when I apply for a job or internship?” Read More

20 Tips on Preparing Students with Disabilities for Employment

This post gives you 20 “starter strategies” for helping young people with disabilities who are ready for their first job experience. Read More

Keep students with disabilities from dropping out of school

Why do students drop out of school, and what can educators do to keep them engaged? Read More

Tip for Transition: The Dream Sheet

Use this powerful transition tool to help students map out their dreams. Read More

Successful Kindergarten Transition: Downloadable Forms

Download this set of forms to accompany your purchase of Successful Kindergarten Transition. Included are a Transition Interview form, a Transition Practices Brainstorming Guide, a Transition Timeline Worksheet, teacher/principal checklists, a Kindergarten Transition Contact Log, and an Instructions for Kindergarten Transition Menu Checklist Read More

Expanding our thinking about high schools

Read the excerpt and learn how high schools can better prepare students with disabilities for college and careers. This excerpt also contains a unified framework for secondary transition services. Read More

Challenges Faced by Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families and Youth with Disabilities During the Transition Years

Lack of cultural understanding, lack of respect, and lack of acknowledgment of their hopes and dreams are a few of the major obstacles that this demographic and their families are up against. Read more about these challenges in this chapter excerpt. Read More

Academic Assessment

In this chapter, learn how formal and informal assessment plays an important role in a student's transition to college and/or the professional world. Also included are helpful forms for transition planning like a Parent Survey of Student’s Academic-related Skills sheet and a Study Skills Inventory scale. Read More

Kindergarten Transition Parent Interview—Preschool

Use the following excerpt from Successful Kindergarten Transition as a guide to help families explore their experiences in the fall, winter, and spring of preschool. The intent is to engage the family member in a conversation about school, following up on themes that arise. Read More