Category: Transition Planning and Support
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BHS Special Education Students Create Little Library
This article was published on EagleCountryOnline.com by Brianna Simpson on May 18, 2021. (Batesville, Ind.) – Batesville High School special education teacher Traci Rowlett and her students have been working on a project to make books more available to community members. The Batesville Community Free Little Library can be found near the food pantry outside…
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Van Meter special needs students develop job skills through partnership with West Des Moines Hy-Vee
This article was published on Des Moines Register by Sarah Kay LeBlanc on May 10, 2021. At the start of the year, Colleen Tendall spent days begging businesses to give her special needs students a chance to learn job skills. She wasn’t even requesting her students be paid, the Van Meter high school special education teacher said.…
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Conn. Transition Programs Help Young People With Disabilities Forge A Path Towards Independence
This article was published on WSHU by Clare Secrist on March 30, 2021. Young adults with disabilities undergo a difficult transition from the time they finish their education and try to enter the workforce. Employers and advocates have said these young people are often left behind with little options of where to go in Connecticut.…
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New Strongsville High Shop Will Help Train Special Ed Students
This article was published on Patch by Chris Mosby on March 26, 2021. STRONGSVILLE, OH — The Derby, a new spirit shop at Strongsville High School, officially opened this week. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Wednesday to unveil the retail store. The space was created with input from the Strongsville High special education, business and…
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Cover letter written by 20-year-old with autism reaches millions on LinkedIn
This article was published on ABC News by Nicole Pelletiere on March 17, 2021. A Virginia man has shared his cover letter on LinkedIn in hopes that someone will “take a chance” and offer him a job. Ryan Lowry of Leesburg posted the letter just before his 20th birthday, writing to his “future employer” that…
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Bills to bolster education plans for students with disabilities teed up for Session
This article was published on Florida Politics by Renzo Downey on February 22, 2021. Bills designed to help students with disabilities plot out their continuing education after they graduate high school are ready to move through the House and Senate. Sen. Annette Taddeo and Rep. Allison Tant‘s legislation (SB 726/HB 173) have now both been assigned to committees…
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Northwestern Program For Students With Disabilities Receives Federal Approval
This article was published on KIWAradio by Scott Van Aartsen on January 15, 2021. Orange City, Iowa — A program designed to assist a certain type of student at a northwest Iowa institution of higher learning has been approved by the federal government. College officials tell us Northwestern NEXT, Northwestern College’s two-year program for students…
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Special ed students fill ‘instrumental’ role at Children’s Hospital while learning workplace skills
This article was published on the San Antonio Report by Brooke Crum on January 4, 2021. Deep in the labyrinthine basement of the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio, El-Fayad-Ben Ibrahim worked one Thursday afternoon assembling sheets of paper into packets, one of only eight interns allowed in the hospital amid the pandemic. The Sam Houston…
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Homeless Families Struggle With Impossible Choices As School Closures Continue
This article was published on NPR by Cory Turner on October 7, 2020. The closure of school buildings in response to the coronavirus has been disruptive and inconvenient for many families, but for those living in homeless shelters or hotel rooms — including roughly 1.5 million school-aged children — the shuttering of classrooms and cafeterias has been…
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Young adults are now the largest group of Americans getting COVID-19, CDC says
This article was published on the Los Angeles Times by Karen Kaplan on September 23, 2020. The longer the COVID-19 pandemic goes on, the younger its victims get. A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the median age of people with COVID-19 in the U.S. has declined over the…
