Offerings
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Special Education
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Formal requests for evaluations & services
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Helping determine eligibility under IDEA
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Designing IEPs with measurable educational & life skills goals
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Identifying empirically based (successful) intervention techniques.
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Assessing the quality of current IEPs
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Accompanying families to IEP meetings and fair hearings
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Locating special education summer camps
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Answering the question, “should I seek an out of district placement?”
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Referrals to outside assessments
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Testimony at fair hearings and court cases
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Referrals to educational attorneys
2
Transition Planning
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Identification of appropriate post-secondary goals
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Writing transition plans with step-by-step objectives to support the transition plan goals.
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Working with school districts to provide age-appropriate pre-employment skills AND employment experiences.
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What kinds of supports will the student need in a post-secondary setting, at work, or in the community?
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Connection with state agencies that are instrumental to transition planning & life success.
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Introductions to international travel organizations for individuals with disabilities
3
College & Postsecondary
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Determination of college interest and aptitudes
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Answering the questions, “Is college right for me?” “Community college or a 4-year college – what are the pros and cons?” and “If not college then what?”
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Identifying summer college programs that help with transition to college.
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Locating community-based and college-based transition programs.
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Assistance with applications & tours
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Navigating the disabilities services offices and getting reasonable accommodations under the ADA
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On-going support services
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Independent Living
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Assessment of Independent Living skills
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Assistance with executive functioning augmentation
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Independent living skills training (e.g. budgeting & banking, travel training)
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Referrals to in-home trainers for skills for such as grocery shopping, laundry, cooking, cleaning, and apartment maintenance
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Searches for supportive housing or in home services
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Curriculum Program Design
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Provision of technical support to school districts and private schools
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The design of summer & transition programs
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Staffing, budgetary, and marketing support for the launch of new programs or the updating of current ones
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Identification of disability specific interventions that are based in empirical research.
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Literature reviews
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Grant writing
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Publications