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provide the appropriate transition service to all students with disabilities; applying numerous and challenging programs and strategies. “Students learn to manage their time and money, network with professionals, and prioritize work and school assignments”. Besides, the executive director state that these training motivate and prepare students to insert into society, learning a trade and receiving a salary for their efforts; understanding the meaning of the work, developing social skills, adopting appropriate behaviors, and adequate work’s habits (Virtual Job Shadow, 2016).

When students with learning disabilities decided to go to College, high school teachers and administators are excited and ready to help that student transtition to College. Why don’t Colleges help with the transition? At TMCC they do their best to help, but at other Colleges they don’t. Three ways Colleges can help include making sure students understand their right, testing students knowledge in knowing their academic strengths and ask students who took a Collge course to expalin how they felt about it.

A majority of people do not think about the transitioning from high school to real world for students with a disability. This article was a great read for people who need a better understanding of the transitioning especially students with high standards that are included in the general education setting for the entire day. The article explained the Triangulated Gap Analysis Tool (TGAP), which is designed to assist educators, students, and IEP teams to identify and create annual goals that address the gap in skills, including nonacademic skills, needed to prepare students for postsecondary education, training, employment, and independent living.

This inventory was created to measure vocational interests of individuals with disabilities, ages 12-62, in a reading-free format. This test can be used with people who may have physical, intellectual, and or specific learning disabilities. This inventory is also appropriate for individuals whose first language is not English, those who have a mental health diagnosis, or economically disadvantaged populations. The test consists of a series of 55 sets of three drawings each illustrating different job tasks; the individual chooses the most preferred activity in each set. This inventory can be used in multiple settings such as junior and senior high schools, vocational and career training programs, career counseling centers, colleges and can be used by various qualified professionals for example psychologists, counselors, teachers, and paraprofessionals.

To better understand college students with disabilities and the importance of self-determination; consider these objectives:

Balfanz, Bridgeland, Bruce and Fox (2013), estimated that the 2012-2013 national high school graduation rate was approximately 81.4% for the general student population while the graduation rate for Students With Disabilities (SWD) was estimated to be at 61.0%. This difference of twenty percentage points is significant as it demonstrates the disparity between college and career ready general education students who successfully met the requirements for graduation and those SWD that did not. However, for SWD, successful participation in a career and technical education program is shown to be an efficient and operational way of

In the peer-reviewed article Successful Transition of Students with Disabilities to 21st-Century College and Careers, the authors start by discussing the cases of a high school special education teacher named Ms. Hitchcock. At Ms. Hitchcock high school, they have been working on new ways to help their students transition from high school to adult activities such as post-secondary schooling, independent living, and maintain a job. A new transition process has shown to cover a broad range of skills that are more non-academic than academic, something that many students struggle with. With this new system of nonacademic skills, Ms. Hitchcock has noticed that two of her students, Damien and Jasmine, would benefit from these new findings (Gothberg,

33), research specifically focused on the transition from school-to-work for students with disabilities has also made significant strides in categorizing barriers that might well be applied to the general population. Though targeted at a specific demographic (students with disabilities) this particular study somewhat aligns with the findings of Wentling and Waight (2000) in identifying barriers to the STW transition for secondary students. Purposive sampling by the afore-mentioned researchers was used to select a panel comprised of three distinct professional groups: vocational rehabilitation counselors, licensed special educators, and community rehabilitation providers. This research categorized 84 different barriers deemed moderate to high-impact across 12 distinct domains: networking, systematic barriers, student involvement/skills, parent/family involvement, interagency collaboration, training and education, community integration and access, funding, knowledge of the transition process, transportation, diversity and multicultural issues, and post-secondary

This is a quantitative research article that depicts a job skills training program for individuals who suffer with cognitive impairments. This job skills training program is referred to as COMPETE. The purpose of the COMPETE program is to address the United States Department of Education’s goal to “develop, operate and disseminate specially designed model programs of post secondary, vocational, technical, continuing or adult education for individuals with handicapping conditions” (Federal Register, 1988, p. 218).

Through the line of special needs cases, the Supreme Court has created an exception to the broad principle that a search requires a warrant. Special needs arise when there is a compelling government interest that allows for the warrantless search of ordinary citizens. These searches involve groups who maintain substantial expectations of privacy: the public at large, or classes of law-abiding citizens. The government interest must go beyond normal law enforcement. For example, inspections to ensure residents are in compliance with ordinance codes are exempted. In Martinez-Fuerte, the Court extended the special needs exception to include warrantless searches of cars within one hundred miles of the United States-Mexico border because of the government’s

Research by Daviso (2016) indicates that career technical education can be a strong predictor for future employment for students with learning disabilities and other health impairments during post secondary education years. However career and technical education was not a strong predictor for post secondary education employment for students with intellectual emotional and multiple disabilities. Likewise Daviso’s research also shows that work-study is a strong predictor for students with learning disabilities and other health impairments ability to gain employment after secondary education but the research showed no significant correlation between work-study involvement and students with intellectual disabilities gaining employment after secondary

The history of blind schools dating back to 1828 in Massachusetts were founded on the premise that blind students would leave the schools able to find work. Career education has been and always will be a key component for students who are visually impaired. Effective transition services and counseling is a key factor in preparing students who are visually impaired to be successful in the workforce. Also, integrating expanded core curriculum skills throughout a student’s education is very important successful career education programs. I reviewed numerous sources on the topic of Career Education. My main reason for reviewing literature on the topic of career education is due to serving as a Literacy Coach for the South Carolina School for the

Many young individuals with disabilities face a difficult period of doubt as they transition from childhood into adulthood, primarily in the area of getting employment and independent living. For youth with disabilities who have not been

Over the course of the semester, I spent a wide variety of time working with high school students being trained for future employment through the program Project Search. Project Search is a program that serves high schoolers with significant intellectual and developmental disabilities, training them into possessing the skills to transition from the school system to the workforce. In the fall semester of 2017, five students from Blount County high schools who were interested in future employment took place in the program. Two students were female and three students were male. These students were in their last year of high school, around the age of twenty-one. Each individual had various abilities and skills that assisted them in building their skills for their future professions. The most observable skill was their ability to engage in social situations, which roughly ranged from having difficulty making eye contact to have little to no trouble in speaking. They also ranged in their abilities for a variety of other skills, such as staying in professional dress, completing work in a timely manner, and having a positive attitude during the workday. Over the course of the semester, I watched these students shape and develop their skills to prepare them for professional careers.

The job interview is the gateway to employment, and the ability to interview well is a skill-set in itself. Most young people who are new to the process find that they are often unsuccessful at this component of attempting to become employed due to the fact that they are underprepared for the nuance laden and sometimes improvisatory nature of an interview. This critical step becomes more difficult when a young person experiences difficulties with language, comprehension and/or social deficits as many of our student with disabilities do. According to the US Department of Labor, young people with disabilities ages 20-24 are employed at half the rate of those without. The same subgroup are living in poverty at twice the rate of those without disabilities according to the US Census Bureau.