Description of Building the Legacy

Title
Building the Legacy: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of
2004.

Purpose
To provide authoritative information about, and training materials on, IDEA
and its final Part B regulations.

The George Washington University HEATH Resource Center is an online clearinghouse on postsecondary education for individuals with disabilities. The HEATH Resource Center Clearinghouse has information for students with disabilities on educational disability support services, policies, procedures, adaptations, accessing college or university campuses, career-technical schools, and other postsecondary training entities.

The completion of high school is the beginning of adult life. Entitlement to public education ends, and young people and their families are faced with many options and decisions about the future. The most common choices for the future are pursuing vocational training or further academic education, getting a job, and living independently.

How Students With Disabilities can Prepare for College

Some adults, because of their disabilities, have lives which do not include many of the experiences of their non-disabled peers, including attending college and obtaining a career. Increased awareness of the rights and
contributions of individuals with disabilities has resulted in a growing concern about expanding their post-secondary options. This publication addresses issues surrounding transition from high school to college and beyond for people with disabilities.

DO-IT 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.

Welcome to NICHCY and a wealth of information on disabilities!

NICHCY stands for the National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities. We serve the nation as a central source of information on:

• disabilities in infants, toddlers, children, and youth,
• IDEA, which is the law authorizing special education,
• No Child Left Behind (as it relates to children with disabilities), and
• research-based information on effective educational practices.

This resource book came about because several young people who had lived in parental and foster homes their entire lives realized they were facing life after high school in a nursing facility because of lack of available adult supports in the community and confusion about how to get them.

As a result, P&A brought together staff of several agencies to figure out how to help people find the transition services they needed. The group pooled their knowledge about available programs to put together a resource book that could be used by young people with disabilities in foster care to transition successfully to adulthood.

Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) coverage offered through the Medicaid program has played an important and unique role for low-income children with disabilities, and maintaining this support is a key concern. This issue brief discusses the challenges and implications for young people with disabilities when they become adults and lose their EPSDT benefits and how recent changes to the Deficit Reduction Act give states an opportunity to increase the availability of services that allow disabled individuals to lead as normal a life as possible as they move into adulthood.

This video is a good introduction to the ARC process and will help you be more prepared for your next ARC meeting.

http://www.ihdi.uky.edu/avfiles/negotiating_the_ARC.wmv

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Students transition and go in many different directions after high school. Some choose to go right into the workforce. Some go into military service. Still others go on to postsecondary education. Students with disabilities have all of these options too.

This guide deals with the last of these options,postsecondary education. Postsecondary education includes many kinds of education and training programs, technical college degree and certification programs, apprenticeship experience, two- and four-year colleges, private trade schools, on-the-job training, and more.