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Chart Your Own Future: How Your Individualized Education Program (IEP) Can Help

Provides information on how taking ownership of one's IEP can help a student have control over making decisions and planning for future education, employment and housing. Includes resources to help students and families learn more about goal setting and getting involved in the IEP process. This link opens a PDF document.

LD Resources Foundation

Provides information to help adults with learning disabilities (LD) overcome barriers and access knowledge. Includes resources on assistive technology, organizational skills, scholarships and a Survival Guide for adults with LD or ADD.

My Future My Plan: A Transition Planning Resource for Life After High School
Curriculum designed to motivate and guide students with disabilities and their families as they begin early transition planning for life after high school.
Teens Against Bullying

Information about preventing teen bullying so it won't happen to you, by you or to someone close to you. Follow PACER Teens Against Bullying on Facebook.

Think College: Getting Started
Checklist helps students with disabilities start the process of applying to college.
Tips for Teens: Use Your IEP Meetings to Learn How to Advocate for Yourself
Information for teens on how to begin to express their needs and wants by participating in their Individualized Education Program (IEP) meetings. At these meetings, teens can learn ways to talk about their disability to others, set goals, build teamwork skills, ask for accommodation and practice other self-advocacy skills. This link opens a PDF document.
Transition Resources for Students

The National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities offers many resources to help young people with disabilities as they leave high school and move on to higher education, employment and other phases of adult life.

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