Enacted in 2015, this legislation created a committee which conducted a study into postsecondary education and employment needs for individuals with IDD. It recommended that the Georgia legislature create an Employment First Georgia Council under the Georgia vocational rehabilitation agency....Read more
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This bill was signed on 4/27/23. Section 1, Subpart 12 encompasses the requirements and procedures of a 5-year pilot of a state-funded scholarship for IPSE students. In the fiscal budget year 2024...Read more
This Think College Transition Student Profile features Morgan, a dual enrollment student at Holyoke Community College who went on to transfer to Westfield State University. Morgan developed and...Read more
This Think College Snapshot captures data from June 2019 on specific markers of higher education programs for students with intellectual disabilities, including which are designated as...Read more
Why GAO Did This Study: Research suggests that more students with disabilities are pursuing higher education than in years past, and recent legislative changes, such as those in the Higher...Read more
Staff from the Institute for Community Inclusion, at the University of Massachusetts Boston, asked 50 students with intellectual disabilities who have participated in inclusive college experiences...Read more
This infographic video shares key facts about college for students with intellectual disabilities and why going to college is a dream for many students....Read more
This video shares the stories of several students with ID who are enrolled in the Next Steps program at Vanderbilt....Read more
Presented at the CEC LIVE 2021 conference, Clare Papay and Meg Grigal shared findings from a study that analyzed data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2012 to determine if youth...Read more
This presentation, delivered virtually for the 2020 DCDT Annual Conference, is the first presentation in a series from the Moving Transition Forward project, which will examine the composition and...Read more