Live.WORK.Achieve
A Listserv for the
Mississippi Partnerships for Employment
For Youth and Young Adults with Developmental Disabilities
Including Intellectual Disabilities Project
September 2012
Welcome to Live.WORK.Achieve, a monthly e-newsletter targeting anyone interested in and supportive of employment for youth and young adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities. Live.WORK.Achieve is offered through the Institute for Disability Studies in collaboration with the Mississippi Council on Developmental Disabilities and Disability Rights Mississippi and includes resources and information on employment and career development.
Inside this issue:
1) MS PTI Webinar – “Getting and Keeping the First Job” – Sept. 11
2) Assistive Technology Survey
3) More States Receive Waivers for No Child Left Behind
4) Transition Resource Available on Updated Website
5) Career Development and Transition Fact Sheets
6) Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century
1) MS PTI Webinar – “Getting and Keeping the First Job” – Sept. 11
This MS PTI (Mississippi Parent Training and Information Center) webinar scheduled for Sept. 11, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. will help parents of children with disabilities of any age. It's hard to think outside of the box on a daily basis, and this presentation will help jumpstart new ideas on how to help you and your child learn new ways to build job skills at home. It's never too early to get started. The webinar will be presented by Leslie Junkin, community outreach and training coordinator for MS PTI. To register, visit https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/633992626.
2) Assistive Technology Survey
ILRU (Independent Living Research Utilization) is conducting a survey to assess the assistive technology needs of people with disabilities. This survey is designed to determine the current availability of assistive technology and the potential for new, innovative devices. By identifying the assistive technology needs of people with disabilities, ILRU will be better able to work with policymakers and funders to address assistive technology needs. Access the survey at http://fifthfreedom.org/u/i2. Learn more about ILRU at http://www.ilru.org.
3) More States Receive Waivers for No Child Left Behind
The U.S. Department of Education has announced seven additional states that have been granted waivers to many of the No Child Left Behind’s requirements, upping the total number of states with approved waivers to 32. The newly approved states are: Arizona, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, and Washington, DC. For more information, visit http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/obama-administration-approves-seven-more-nclb-flexibility-requests-32-states-and.
4) Transition Resource Available on Updated Website
Achieve has updated the design and organization of its website. Achieve is nonprofit organization providing support to states to help them design, develop, adopt, implement and sustain policies to ensure all students graduate from high school ready for college, careers, and life. In recent years, Achieve has been particularly focused on supporting states as they transition to the Common Core State Standards. Achieve offers state-specific advocacy materials for all 50 states and Washington D.C. in the states section of the website. Achieve is the project manager for states in the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the Next Generation Science Standards, and has links in the “Our Networks” section of the website. For more information, visit http://www.achieve.org/.
5) Career Development and Transition Fact Sheets
The Council for Exceptional Children’s Division on Career Development and Transition (DCDT) has developed fact sheets on independent living, vocational education, self-determination, age-appropriate transition assessment, transition planning, competencies, and student involvement in the Individualized Education Plan (IEP) process. For more information, visit http://www.dcdt.org/publications/.
6) Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century
The report, “Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century,” from the National Research Council, discusses the key skills that increase deeper learning, college and career readiness, student-centered learning, and higher order thinking, including both cognitive and non-cognitive skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, effective communication, motivation, persistence, and learning to learn, as well as creativity, innovation, and ethics. All these are important to later success and may be developed in formal or informal learning environments. The report also describes how these skills relate to each other and to more traditional academic skills and content in the key disciplines of reading, mathematics, and science. A brief of the report is available free for download at http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13398.
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Live.WORK.Achieve is sponsored by the Mississippi Partnerships for Employment (MSPE) for Youth and Young Adults with Developmental Disabilities, Including Intellectual Disabilities project. MSPE is funded by the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and is managed by the Mississippi Council on Developmental Disabilities (MS CDD), Disability Rights Mississippi (DRMS) and The University of Southern Mississippi Institute for Disability Studies (IDS).
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