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WHO GETS TO GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL
According to the Special Education Elementary Longitudinal Study (SEELS), 92% of parents expected their child to graduate from high school with a regular diploma and
75% expected their child go on to post-secondary education after high school.
GRADUATION...
Where Am I? Where Am I Going?
And just how am I going to get there? Questions that all students struggle with and those in special education programs struggle with even more because those answers demand so much self- knowledge, self- advocacy, empowerment and direction. Traditionally,...
Empowerment = Self Advocacy
Empowerment is the process of becoming stronger and more confident in controlling one's life and claiming one's rights.
Empowerment is one of those things you gift to yourself. Empowerment can not be given to you by someone else. The more you practice empowerment...
CAREER AWARENESS/EMPLOYMENT GOALS
The assumption of competence on the part of parents, teachers and other authority figures who have contact with students who have intellectual or physical challenges can have a huge impact on post-secondary employment, education, lifestyle and life satisfaction....
Self Advocacy Makes Transitions Work
If the truth be told, when it comes to transition, parents are frequently in the dark as to all of the areas that transition covers and just how comprehensive the umbrella of transition can be for their student. When there are inexperienced teachers, or other...
Go To Guide To Healthcare Transition
A GO TO GUIDE for HEALTHCARE TRANSITION that ensures that all of the students needs are being addressed. Transition in the healthcare domain is the process of changing from a pediatric to an adult model of healthcare with the goal of optimizing...
KEYS TO INDEPENDENT LIVING
It can be quite amazing when you have two students with evaluation profiles that are fairly similar yet you can tell that one is going to be able to create a life for themselves while the other seems destined to being maintained in a life that others create for them....
BULLYING
“STICKS AND STONES MAY BREAK MY BONES, BUT WORDS WILL NEVER HURT ME” is, to say the least, highly inaccurate. In fact, if you are the target of those words it can feel like you are the world’s greatest loser with this great big “L” tattooed on your forehead....
TRANSITION PLANNING - ASSESSMENTS COME FIRST
IDEA defines transition as a “results-oriented process” focused on improving academic and functional achievement that supports successful post-secondary training and programs, vocational training, work, independent living, recreation,...
5 Step Road Map for Person Centered Planning
5 steps that walk you through the entire process of Person Centered Planning. Regardless of the talents available without a plan for the planning, co-ordination and communication breaks down so once again we have a person wanting to be included, to...
Life Plan of Possibilities & Discoveries
for Those Who are Disabled.
Person Centered Planning has the goal of allowing a person to move away from a number of obstacles and challenges to participation. It is hoped that PCP can move a person from
- isolation and seclusion to a community...
SELF ADVOCACY
YOU ARE ALREADY COOL !
I hope you already agree and think you are cool. If not - what is your definition of coolness? Are you someone who looks in the mirror and sees only how too you are? You know, you are too short, too tall, have hair that is too curly, too...