Few students with disabilities from high-poverty backgrounds attend college. We discuss the effects of disability and growing up in poverty on expectations for postsecondary education...Read more
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Rethinking College introduces the audience to what is possible for students with intellectual disabilities, and explores how initiatives to include them are currently working. This film is not...Read more
The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study is to describe how culture, disability, and prospective first-generation college student status influenced the transition decisions of five...Read more
This Student and Parent Handbook from The Scholars with Diverse Abilities Program (SDAP) at Appalachian State University provides an example of the kinds of things that can be covered in a...Read more
This article highlights the importance of postsecondary education for young adults with disabilities. It notes the increasing demand for postsecondary qualifications in growing career fields and...Read more
Postsecondary education (PSE) is increasingly becoming an option for students with intellectual disability. Postsecondary education offers the promise of pursuing a valued social role (that of...Read more
Postsecondary education programs have increased opportunities for students with and without intellectual disabilities to study abroad as inclusive classes. Using open-coding qualitative techniques...Read more
This article highlights the critical and most important issues to which college and university counsel and administrators should be giving attention at this time. The discussion in this article is...Read more
Forces including legislation, policy, standards-based educational reforms, and changing economic and social conditions have dramatically altered the conversation and practices around postsecondary...Read more
Promoting self-determination has become a best practice in special education. There remains, however, a paucity of causal evidence for interventions to promote self-determination. This article...Read more