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For young adults with disabilities
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 9, 2016
Your Voice Needed
If you're a parent of young person with a disability between the ages of 14-26, please help INCLUDEnyc and NYS Transition Partners better understand your experience with your child's transition process by filling out a quick and confidential survey.
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News and Perspective
Work
Examples of job accommodations for people with disabilities
Disability.gov
WOW Program: Building Pathways to Employment
Disability News
Dancing Starbucks barista with autism raises awareness about disability employment
A PLUS
Education
NYS Board of Regents adopts an amendment that would provide an additional local diploma option to students with disabilities
NYSED
Inclusion on the rise in nation’s schools
Disability Scoop
BLOG: Let’s use data to help our kids, not lock it up and throw away the key
Huffington Post
Adult Services and Supports
Short video on key differences system-centered planning vs person-centered-planning
Open Future Learning
Independent Living
Justice department intervenes in housing discrimination case
Disability Scoop
How smart do you have to be to raise a child?
NY Magazine
Disability and Culture
What 'Making a Murderer' reveals about the justice system and intellectual disability
Rolling Stone
Group helps young adults with autism fit in
Disability Scoop
Ten disability awareness lessons learned from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friendship Circle
Around the world in a wheelchair
Disability Scoop
Resources
A how-to guide on the US DOE’s Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) for high school students and the adults who help them
The New School Center for NYC Affairs
Applying practical solutions for employment success
Office of Disability Employment Policy
Six ways parents can help their college students with anxiety
NBC News
What's perseveration, why it happens, and how to help
Snagglebox
College or training programs: How to decide
PACER
A guide for improving transition outcomes for young people with disabilities in the juvenile corrections system
National Collaborative on Workforce & Disability for Youth
The difference between audiobooks and text-to-speech
Understood
Blog of the Month
The words that made my day after visiting my son with autism at college
The Mighty
Events
New York City
February 11: Your Guide to Transition and Life After High School
INCLUDEnyc
Western New York
TONIGHT: Western New York Developmental Disability Regional Offices (DDRO), Chautauqua
Parent Network Western New York
TOMORROW: Western New York Developmental Disability Regional Offices (DDRO) Information Session, Niagara
Parent Network Western New York
February 18: Benefits for Persons with Developmental Disabilities in New York State, Erie
Parent Network Western New York
February 23: Educate to elevate, Erie
Parent Network Western New York
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