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The Connecting Point
Volume: 4 Issue: 10 Date: March 27, 2007
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) Keeping It Real: How to Get the Support You Need for the Life You Want - A new Transition Guide
2) Through Deaf Eyes- A New PBS Documentary
3) Students with Disabilities Preparing for Postsecondary Education: Know Your Rights and Responsibilities
4) Recent Publications from Kaiser Family Foundation on Health Care
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1) Keeping It Real: How to Get the Support You Need for the Life You Want - A new Transition Guide - The Elizabeth M. Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities/UMDNJ, New Jersey's University Center of Excellence, has a new transition curriculum that might be of interest to you. Keeping It Real: How to Get the Support You Need for the Life You Want , now available in both English and Spanish, was written to teach young adults with disabilities how to get and manage the supports they need to reach their goals. The curriculum is intended to help students have a better understanding of who they are, what they want to do as adults, what supports will help them achieve the goals they set for themselves, and how to effectively advocate for those supports.
In addition to the Keeping It Real workbook, companion guides include: a Parents' Module (also available Spanish), a Teacher's Guide, and Budgeting Basics. A CD for text readers is available as well.
The Keeping It Real workbook and all companion guides can be downloaded and printed for free from The Boggs Center's website http://rwjms.umdnj.edu/boggscenter/index.htm (Press "Products").
A limited number of hard copies of Keeping It Real and the Parents' Module (English versions only) are available upon request.
Please contact Kathy Roberson for more information at (732) 235-9317 or kathy.roberson@umdnj.edu
2) Through Deaf Eyes - is a two-hour PBS HDTV documentary that explores 200 years of Deaf life in America. The film includes interviews with prominent members of the Deaf community, including actress Marlee Matlin and Gallaudet University president emeritus I. King Jordan. Interwoven throughout the film are six short documentaries produced by Deaf media artists and filmmakers. Poignant, sometimes humorous, these commissioned stories bring a personalized sense of Deaf life in America to the film. Through first person accounts and the film as a whole, THROUGH DEAF EYES tells the story of conflicts, prejudice and affirmation that ultimately reaches the heart of what it means to be human. Stockard Channing narrates this account of American history from the perspective of the deaf, including challenges they've faced in educational settings; technological advances such as teletype machines, closed-captioning and cochlear implants. http://www.pbs.org/weta/throughdeafeyes
Check this site for viewing days and times in your area.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/throughdeafeyes/about/broadcast.html?edit_st=y
Included on the website is a PDF discussion guide.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/throughdeafeyes/resources/deafeyes_guide.pdf
GREAT NEWS for Deaf-Blind / people, people with low vision (and others who do not own a TV) There is a transcript on "Through Deaf Eyes". It is located on PBS website. It has not only the transcript, but has all the information that tells us about Through Deaf Eyes.
The transcript has 47 pages.
http://www-tc.pbs.org/weta/throughdeafeyes/about/transcript.pdf?mii=1
The documentary is also available for purchase.
http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=2608158&clickid=Body1&ab=Deaf
3) Students with Disabilities Preparing for Postsecondary Education: Know Your Rights and Responsibilities - The information in this pamphlet, provided by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in the U. S. Department of Education, explains the rights and responsibilities of students with disabilities who are preparing to attend postsecondary schools. This pamphlet also explains the obligations of a postsecondary school to provide academic adjustments, including auxiliary aids and services, to ensure the school does not discriminate on the basis of disability.
Hardcopies are available at: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/transition.html
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/transition.html#reproduction#reproduction - Reproduction and ordering information.
A printable version is available online at, http://www.ed.gov/print/about/offices/list/ocr/transition.html
First published July 2002. Reprinted May 2004. Revised May 2005 and June 2006 and March 2007.
To order copies of this publication, write to: ED Pubs Education Publications Center, U.S. Department of Education, P.O. Box 1398 Jessup, MD 20794-1398; or fax your order to: 301-470-1244; or e-mail your request to: edpubs@inet.ed.gov ; or call in your request toll-free: 1-877-433-7827 (1-877-4-ED-PUBS). If 877 service is not yet available in your area, you may call 1-800-872-5327 (1-800-USA-LEARN). Those who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) or a teletypewriter (TTY), should call 1-877-576-7734. or order online at www.edpubs.org.
This publication is also available on the Department's Web site at http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/transition.html Any updates to this publication will be available on this Web site. On request, this publication can be made available in alternate formats, such as Braille, large print or computer diskette. For more information, you may contact the Department's Alternate Format Center at (202) 260-0852 or (202) 260-0818, or via e-mail at Katie.Mincey@ed.gov. If you use a TDD, call 1-800-877-8339.
4) Recent Publications from Kaiser Family Foundation on Health Care - Medicaid: A Primer -- March 2007- http://www.kff.org/medicaid/7334-02.cmf -The primer provides an overview of the basic components of the nation's largest health coverage program that covers 55 million low-income individuals (including families, people with disabilities and the elderly) and is the dominant source of the country's long-term care financing.
http://www.kff.org/medicaid/upload/Medicaid-A-Primer-pdf.pdf
Aging Out of Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT): Issues for Young Adults with Disabilities -- January 2007- http://www.kff.org/medicaid/7491.cmf -This issue brief discusses the challenges and implications for young people with disabilities when they become adults and lose their Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) benefits, and how recent changes to the Deficit Reduction Act give states an opportunity to increase the availability of services that allow young, disabled adults to lead as normal a life as possible as they move into adulthood. http://www.kff.org/medicaid/upload/7491.pdf
Resources on Dual Eligibles and Issues Related to Their Transition to the New Medicare Drug Benefit - With the new Medicare prescription drug benefit available as of January 1, 2006, over 6 million low-income seniors and people with disabilities who are enrolled in both Medicaid and Medicare--also known as dual eligibles--have been transitioned from Medicaid drug coverage to new Medicare drug plans. While there are many policy issues related to the overall establishment of the new drug benefit, the mandatory transition of dual eligibles has created a special set of challenges for the federal government, states, and beneficiaries.
http://www.kff.org/medicaid/dualsrx.cfm
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