DISABILITIES: RESOURCES : EMPLOYMENT: CAREER: RESOURCES:
Postsecondary Employment Opportunities Resource Links for Those with
Intellectual Disabilities
"The following listing of Links is continually updated to reflect new
information about organizations that support expanding and enhancing
postsecondary opportunities for students with intellectual disabilities."
[Postsecondary Opportunities Resource] Links
http://www.heath.gwu.edu/idlinks.htm
Content Sample
The Transition Coalition seeks to maximize professional development in
secondary school reform and transition at the national, state, and local
levels. The Coalition supports best practices and creates professional
development forums using face-to-face and online training and technical
assistance.
<http://www.transitioncoalition.org>
The Transition Research Institute at Illinois (TRI) identifies effective
practices, conducts intervention and evaluation research, and provides
technical assistance activities that promote the successful transition of
youth with disabilities from school to adult life.
<http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/sped/tri/institute.html>
Equity and Excellence in Higher Education provides college and university
faculty with strategies for instruction that create an inclusive and
accessible classroom, supportive of the learning diversities of its
students.
<http://iod.unh.edu/EE>
The Inclusion Research Institute (IRI) develops, researches, and
disseminates educational, therapeutic, and technological innovations that
enable persons of all ages, including individuals with disabilities to be
independent, productive and included in schools, communities, and places
of employment.
<http://www.inclusionresearch.org>
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This is another such resource:
Think College.net
Web Resources
<http://www.thinkcollege.net/resources/index.php?page=webresources>
Content Sample from this rather extensive list:
Advancing Post Secondary Educational Opportunities For People With
Developmental Disabilities -Explorations in Leadership.
http://www.ip-se.com/
Beyond Compliance: An Information Package on the Inclusion of People with
Disabilities in Postsecondary Education
http://thechp.syr.edu/BCCC_PACKAGE.HTML
STEPS Forward Inclusive Post-secondary Education Society (STEPS)
http://www.stepsforward.homestead.com/index.html
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Finally this is another place to look for information about transition to
the world of employment for those with intellectual disablilities.
Michigan Transition Outcomes Project (TOP)
Presentations and Resources
<http://www.cenmi.org/tspmi/top.asp>
I am deeply grateful to Donna Martinez for taking time from her work and
research to privately share these resource links with me and I hope that
those reading this message will find these resources useful and if so
please feel free to let Donna know that they helped.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold>
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<http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html>
<http://www.LIFEofFlorida.org>
Digital Divide Network
<http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/jwne>
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K12Admin/>
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