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The Connecting Point
Volume: 4 Issue: 8 Date: February 1, 2006
The Connecting Point is an email update service from the CORE (Choices, Options, and Resources, Education) Project of Washington PAVE (Parents are Vital in Education). The Connecting Point provides information, resources and updates to help transitioning students and adults with disabilities, their families, schools, and other organizations and agencies understand services and options available for adults needing additional supports.
In This ISSUE:
1) Teaching Functional Life Skills to Youth with Disabilities
2) Parent Tool Kit
3) DO IT Programs and Resources: Adaptive Technology
4) Easter Seals Project ACTION Resource: You Can Ride
5) "Consumer Directed Model Training Manual and Personal Care Attendant Handbook"
6) Accessible Air Travel: A Guide for People with Disabilities
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1) Teaching Functional Life Skills to Youth with Disabilities
NSTTAC (National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center) is please to announce the posting of the literature review from the What Works in Transition Research Synthesis Project on Teaching Functional Life Skills to Youth with Disabilities. An Executive Summary, the Full Text, and Research to Practice Lesson Plan Starters based on nine "best evidence" studies can be found at http://www.nsttac.org/?FileName=what_works&type=1, or by clicking on What Works in Transition Resources on the NSTTAC website www.nsttac.org.
2) Parent Tool Kit
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the release of a CD version of the Tool Kit on Teaching and Assessing Students With Disabilities: Parents Materials designed to assist parents and states in their efforts to work together to raise the achievement of all students with disabilities.
The Parent Tool Kit compiles materials identified to augment the previously released CD, Tool Kit on Teaching and Assessing Students with Disabilities, and offers a collection of resources on the same substantive areas addressed, including assessment, instructional practices, behavior and accommodations. These new documents were written specifically for parents and include information they need as they work with schools to ensure that their children are receiving a quality education. Materials included in the new Parent Tool Kit provide information that will help them become active and informed participants in IEP discussions and other decision making meetings that support students with disabilities and their families.
To encourage broad dissemination of these materials, we have launched a new Web site, www.osepideasthatwork.org/index.asp , which includes the materials in the Parent Tool Kit. The Web site will continue to be updated with additional materials as they become available.
This Parent Tool Kit is an example of the Department of Educations ongoing commitment to ensuring that states, local school districts, schools and families have the most current and relevant information about practices that will improve and enhance education opportunities for children with disabilities throughout the nation. We appreciate the time you commit and the work you do every day to improve the academic achievement of students with disabilities and hope you find these materials useful in advancing achievement through strong accountability and assessments for all students.
Sincerely, John H. Hager, Assistant Secretary, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services U.S. Department of Education
3) DO IT Programs and Resources: Adaptive Technology
http://www.washington.edu/doit/Resources/at.html
Many capable individuals with disabilities face challenges as they pursue academics and careers. They are underrepresented in many rewarding career fields, including science, engineering, business, and technology. DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) serves to increase the participation of individuals with disabilities in challenging academic programs and careers. It promotes the use of computer and networking technologies to increase independence, productivity, and participation in education and employment. DO-IT has an extensive collection of publications and videos concerning access to information technology, including:
· Publication Working Together: People with Disabilities and Computer Technology an overview of adaptive technology. Video Working Together: People with Disabilities and Computer Technology.
· Publication Working Together: Computers and People with Learning Disabilities an overview of computer based tools for people with learning disabilities. Video Working Together: Computers and People with Learning Disabilities.
· Publication Working Together: Computers and People With Mobility Impairments an overview of computer based accommodations for people with mobility impairments. Video Working Together: Computers and People with Mobility Impairments.
· Publication Working Together: Computers and People with Sensory Impairments an overview of accommodations for people with sensory impairments. Video Working Together: Computers and People with Sensory Impairments.
· Adaptive Technology used by DO-IT Scholars technology used by participants and students with disabilities.
DO-IT is a collaboration of Computing & Communications and the Colleges of Engineering and Education at the University of Washington. Primary funding for DO-IT is provided by the National Science Foundation, the State of Washington, and the U.S. Department of Education. Consult DO-IT Support for more information.
4) Easter Seals Project ACTION Resource: You Can Ride
You Can Ride is a handy little booklet that helps people who cannot read or who do not use English understand how to use public transportation. It is illustrated with step-by-step graphic instructions on how to ride the bus or para-transit. The booklet depicts everything from planning a trip to exiting a bus on fixed routes and para-transit systems and includes an audio CD. This is an excellent resource for travel trainers and Easter Seals can provide as many booklets as needed, free of charge.
http://projectaction.easterseals.com/ (On the left hand side of the page, click on the link to Free Resources, Under Publications, click on the link to The Easter Seals Project ACTION Clearinghouse. In the Search field at the top of the page enter, You Can Ride. You can download it as a .PDF or .txt file and also order copies in your choice of format.)
5) "Consumer Directed Model Training Manual and Personal Care Attendant Handbook" -A Consumer Directed training manual and Personal Care Attendant handbook developed by the Arkansas Independent Choices program. The Arkansas Independent Choices program developed two new tools. The Consumer-Directed training manual will provide users with ideas and suggestions on hiring, training, and managing a personal care attendant. The Personal Care Attendant handbook will provide users with training material that will help trainees do their job as a personal care attendant. Both manuals contain information about hiring, communication and management issues.
http://www.cashandcounseling.org/resources/20060303-140846/1ConsumerDirectedManual.pdf
6) Accessible Air Travel: A Guide for People with Disabilities
United Spinal Association, a national group for people with spinal cord disabilities, helps to clarify air travel regulations. It notes: Transportation Security Administration officers are instructed to allow people with disabilities to keep their shoes on. Those who keep their shoes on will be subjected to additional screening: a visual physical inspection, and explosive trace detection sampling of their footwear. The TSA allows up to 4 ounces of liquid nonprescription medicine. Gel wheelchair cushions are allowed. A pamphlet, Accessible Air Travel: A Guide for People with Disabilities tells more. Contact: 8004440120; www.unitedspinal.org.
From: Akron Beacon Journal, OH
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