Secondary education options for students with intellectual disabilities

By |2024-01-25T14:25:38-05:00January 25th, 2024|Categories: High School Transition, Latest News, Top Stories, Youth|Tags: |

UNH-4U is a secondary education option for students with intellectual disabilities to have the ability to reach their life and career goals. This option allows students to experience college life with peers without disabilities. Join Ariel Schwartz as she explains what UNH-4U and Bridges are all about. She will share how you can connect your [...]

Updated Special Education Procedural Safeguards 2023

By |2023-12-11T14:46:54-05:00December 11th, 2023|Categories: Latest News, Special Education, Top Stories|Tags: |

The NH Bureau of Special Education Supports has issued an updated Special Education Procedural Safeguards Handbook for districts to provide parents of children with disabilities. This handbook has adopted the federal template while also including NH-specific information. Procedural Safeguards are designed to protect the rights of parents and their children with a disability and, at the same [...]

Major Choice: A Mentor-Based Career Exploration Opportunity

By |2023-11-01T11:15:21-04:00November 1st, 2023|Categories: High School Transition, Latest News, Top Stories, Youth|Tags: |

A recent Gallup Poll conducted in partnership with the NH Learning Initiative revealed that NH students who engage in career-connected learning experiences feel more hopeful about their future and engage more at school. For every additional career-connected learning experience a student has, those hope and engagement scores increase exponentially. In this presentation and chat Co-Founders of [...]

Voting in the Transition Planning Process

By |2023-10-19T14:39:48-04:00October 19th, 2023|Categories: High School Transition, Latest News, Top Stories, Youth|Tags: |

New Hampshire recently passed a law to help foster civic engagement and voting rights for students in transition. Watch this presentation from James Ziegra, Staff Attorney for the Disability Rights Center of NH, to learn about the new changes and how to encourage your youth and their teams to support their right to vote. After watching [...]

Download PIC’s Award Winning Transition Tool Kit

By |2023-10-11T18:50:51-04:00October 10th, 2023|Categories: High School Transition|Tags: |

This Tool Kit is designed to help families and youth learn about the transition planning process for youth who have an Individualized Education Program (IEP). It provides an overview of the laws relating to transition and best practices. The information in this Tool Kit will help families and youth better collaborate with the schools to [...]

Life After High School Module 1: What is Post-Secondary Transition?

By |2023-10-17T14:26:23-04:00March 27th, 2023|Categories: High School Transition, Latest News, Youth|Tags: |

This module will inform students, families, and the staff that support them on what Post Secondary Transition is and how youth with disabilities and their families can be involved in the process. After you are done watching, check out Module 2: Transition Planning Components.

Life After High School Module 2: Transition Planning Components in the IEP

By |2023-10-17T14:28:12-04:00March 26th, 2023|Categories: High School Transition, Latest News, Youth|Tags: |

Module 2 will inform students, families, and the staff that support them on what each transition component means, how they work together, when they are required, and how youth with disabilities and their families can be involved in the process. After you have finished watching, check out Module 3: Tying it All Together. [...]

Life After High School Module 3: Tying it All Together

By |2023-10-11T15:08:56-04:00March 25th, 2023|Categories: High School Transition, Latest News, Youth|Tags: |

Module three will inform students, families, and the staff that support them on how to bring the information in modules one and two together and understand how transition planning components inform annual goals and other important transition related considerations. Please fill out a brief evaluation to tell us how we [...]

Assistive Technology Continuum Session 3: Math & Assistive Technology When Handwriting is Not Your Thing

By |2023-10-11T15:09:13-04:00February 21st, 2023|Categories: High School Transition, Latest News, Online Learning Hub|Tags: |

This chat explores a variety of assistive technologies to support alternatives to pencil and paper math. Notability Math Paper Photomath Onscreen keyboards Voice recognition Be sure to download the hand out below with links to resources and apps that support students in Math. Assistive Technology for Math [...]

Assistive Technology Continuum Session 2: Assistive Technology Written Expression & Authoring Tools

By |2023-10-11T15:09:28-04:00February 21st, 2023|Categories: High School Transition, Latest News, Online Learning Hub|Tags: |

This chat explores a variety of assistive technologies to support written expression. Talking word processor Word prediction Word Banks Sentence Starter (Clicker) Voice-to-text Audio bookmaker (Book Creator, Pictello) Be sure to download the hand out below with links to resources and apps that support students with challenges in written expression. [...]

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