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Advocacy: Self Directed Action Booklet [ pdf: 1,951 KB ]
This booklet focuses on identifying and developing skills for effective self-advocacy. The addition of these skills will aid students in determining what they need from their post-secondary education ...
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Broaden Your Horizons. Transition resource
Broaden Your Horizons is a centralised website that houses resources relating to young people with disabilities. This resource is dedicated to provide quality career and transition information and sup...
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Considering Higher Education?
This is a comprehensive planning guide to assist people with disabilities or medical conditions to make an informed decision about what they want to study and, how to go about gaining entry into the c...
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Consulting with students about their disability related needs
Students are not generally required to provide information about the functional implications of their disability (rather than the details of the disability itself) to facilitate the provision of suppo...
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Disability Lifestyles: Study options - TAFE, University or .... ?
The Disability Lifestyles information and communication website brings a different focus on issues of major interest to people with disabilities. It aims to act as a bridge between rehabilitation and ...
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Future Pathways Guide [ pdf: 1,166 KB ]
The Future Pathways Guide 2007 is a transition guide to assist ACT students with a disability make informed decisions and plans for life after school.
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Get Ready For Uni: Students with disability
This information kit is a 'kick start' for high school students with disability thinking about going to uni. There are sections to help prepare for uni, with tips, hints and links.
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Grasp The Nettle - Tertiary Transition experiences
Grasp the Nettle is a collection of tertiary transition experiences from people with learning disability. These recordings share the experiences of 11 individuals with learning disability who have ma...
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Helping students make the transition to post-secondary education
When it comes to the transition to post-secondary education, students with disability have the same needs as other students: clear information about course requirements, their rights and responsibilit...
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iTransition: Transition for students who are deaf or hard of hearing to postsecondary education (US)
iTransition is a free, online transition curriculum to help students who are deaf or hard of hearing prepare for life after high school.
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Leaps and Bounds - Queensland [ doc: 1,165 KB ]
Leaps and Bounds (Queensland);- a self-help planning guide to post-secondary education and training in Queensland for prospective students with disabilities and chronic medical conditions. This guide...
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Links to further education and employment: A transition resource (.pdf 1Mb)
'Links to further education and employment' is a resource for people with a disability considering the transition to further education or employment. With information on specific support for the West...
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Making Course Expectations and Support Arrangements Clear
All prospective students need clear information to decide whether they can or want to undertake a course or unit of study. This information is likely to impact student expectations, retentio...
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Making it happen: considering post-school options (Sth Aust) [ doc: 715 KB ]
Information for people with disability who are considering post-school options. A resource book and planner for year 10, 11 and 12 students with disability who are considering post-school options. The...
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Making the transition to an Apprenticeship or Traineeship
This booklet has been designed to aid people with a disability who are making the transition to an apprenticeship or traineeship. It contains information on the five (5) steps to obtaining an apprenti...
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Mature Study Resource Website
This fully accessible website is for mature age people with disabilities and/or medical conditions considering tertiary education at TAFE, university or Registered Training Organisations (RTOs). The w...
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MovingOn Guide (Hunter/Central Coast )
A Transition Planning resource for students and people with disability in the Hunter-Central Coast-Taree Regions - replaces the School Leavers Directory
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National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET) - US
NCSET coordinates US "national resources, offers technical assistance, and disseminates information related to secondary education and transition for youth with disabilities in order to create opportu...
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OECD: Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Tertiary Education and Employment
This book examines the transition of young adults with disabilities from school to tertiary education and work. It analyses the policy experiences of several OECD countries and identifies recent trend...
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Preparing for higher education: a guide for students with disability in Victoria [ pdf: 3,238 KB ]
This guide is designed to be a comprehensive resource for Victorian students with a disability, learning difficulty or chronic medical conditions who are considering university or college as a trainin...
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Preparing for TAFE: a guide for students with a disability in Victoria [ pdf: 2,717 KB ]
This guide is designed to be a comprehensive resource for students with a disability, learning difficulty or chronic medical conditions who are considering TAFE as a training option. The handbook cov...
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Strategic approaches to disabled student engagement - UK
This guidance is a joint publication from the Higher Education Academy and Equality Challenge Unit (ECU). It has been written to support higher education institutions to strategically develop more eff...
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Fact Sheet
Tertiary Initiatives for People with a Disability (TIPD)
Tertiary Initiatives for People with Disabilities (TIPD) was a joint project of the eight publicly funded universities in Queensland. TIPDs aim was to target issues related to students with a di...
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The perceptions of students with hidden disabilities of their experience during transition to higher education
The perceptions of students with hidden disabilities of their experience during transition to higher education. UK research project - Tina Elliott and Carol Wilson
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The Road Ahead: A NT self-help planning guide (pdf 6.18 mb)
The Road Ahead (Northern Territory) workbook was produced for people with a disability who are considering their post-secondary education and training, for example, secondary school students, VTE (Vo...