This comprehensive, practical book provides user-friendly tools for creating transition plans to help students with disabilities successfully put their goals into action and navigate postsecondary environments.
Now in a thoroughly revised and updated second edition, this handbook provides a comprehensive resource for those who facilitate the complex transitions to adulthood for adolescents with disabilities.
Transition to Postsecondary Education: Strategies for Students with Disabilities
Potential strategies for engaging and empowering families can include a myriad of activities during the K-12 school years, in adolescence prior to the postsecondary experience, and even during the inclusive postsecondary experience or ...
Postsecondary Education and Transition for Students with Learning Disabilities
This book discusses the considerable challenges students with disabilities conquer in education, varying from relationships with teachers and academics, learning resources, and everyday social situations.
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Outlines the challenges people with disabilities face when they enter higher education, and offers practical solutions for helping them develop the academic and social skills that can provide for a healthy transition to college.
As the Higher Education Opportunity Act opens the door to more options and supports, more and more students with intellectual disabilities are "thinking college." That means high schools, colleges, and...