Transition

=Transition Resources for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students =

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[] Impact of assessments on students and their future.

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=Transition Game = 

[|Click Here for iTransition link]

 iTransition is a free, online transition curriculum to help students who are deaf or hard of hearing prepare for life after high school. There are four separate trainings with activities to help students learn about themselves, their career goals, and the skills they need to be successful in the future. Objectives iTransition is designed for deaf or hard of hearing students, ages 14 through adult. After completing this training, students will:
 * Career Interests and Education Choices: It's My Plan!
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First Year College Success: Be the One!
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Essential Skills for College Living: It's My Life!
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">eFolio: My Online Portfolio!
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discover more about their interests, skills, and how they might relate to a career choice
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Explore options for postsecondary education
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Better understand campus departments and services
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Develop critical thinking skills in the areas of academic, career, and personal choices
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Organize information in their own online transition portfolios
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Improve their self-advocacy skills by communicating with others about their interests, goals, and education

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Transition Resource Kit for Itinerant Teachers]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Transition Tools
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The transition from high school to the postsecondary educational environment is a challenge for any student. There are new places, new faces and whole new ways of doing things. Transitioning students suddenly find they must advocate for themselves instead of having programs and services planned for them. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For students who are deaf or hard of hearing, the challenges are even greater. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In this section of the Resource Kit you can access a transition training program called [|iTransition]; see stories told by individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing and learn how they reached their [|career goals]; search an online [|College Guide] to locate colleges and understand the services that each provide; and finally, learn how to plan your [|finances] and access loan and scholarship resources.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Michelle P. Wavier Information
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Michelle P. Waiver is a Medicaid program that helps people live in the community or go back to the community after living in an institution. It is for anyone with a functional mental disability or a developmental disability who is eligible to receive services at an ICF/MR, like Oakwood, Hazelwood, or Cedar Lake Lodge. To get the waiver, you must also have a medical card or be eligible for one. Click on the link below to get more information on the program.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Heath Resource Center Information
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students who are deaf or hard of hearing have a variety of opportunities to further their education and training after high school. Like their hearing peers, they must decide which college, university, or vocational training program will best prepare them for rewarding and productive adult lives. To make informed choices, they must consider their communication and language needs and style, as well as services they will need to maximize their benefit from further education and training. Click below for more information on the Heath Resource Center.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Vocational Rehabilitation
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Click Here for Vocational Rehabilitation Webpage]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR) understands that people with hearing loss have different communication needs. Clear communication between the rehabilitation counselor and the person with hearing loss is the key to successful vocational rehabilitation services. Eligible individuals receive services to get a job, return to a job, keep a job, or get a better job.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">OVR has staff trained to understand about the different problems people with hearing loss may have. Rehabilitation Counselors for the Deaf (RCDs) have sign language skills and serve persons who are deaf and use this type of communication. Communication Specialists are trained about devices and ways to serve individuals who are hard of hearing or late deafened. RCDs and Communication Specialists are also skilled in serving people who have vision problems in addition to a hearing loss or deafness.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Nuts and Bolts of College for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The transition from high school to college can be a very exciting but overwhelming change in a young person's life. Knowing what to expect and armed with knowledge is a key to a successfull transition. The attachments below can help those individuals who are taking this new journey in life. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|College Guide Website]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Transition to the Workplace
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For students who choose to go into the workplace after high school there are some valuable tools to ensure a successful transition. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">JobTIPS
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tips for getting a job and keeping it are at the heart of a new government-funded website designed to help individuals with developmental disabilities become gainfully employed. Through text and video-based features, the website known as JobTIPS offers tools for job seekers with disabilities to identify compatible employment opportunities. Moreover, the site offers advice on how to act in an interview or at work and tips on when and how to talk about a diagnosis. In addition to assistance for individuals with disabilities, the website includes resources for educators, clinicians and transition specialists. For more information go to @http://www.do2learn.com/JobTIPS/index.html

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">REFERENCE POINTS: New Mentoring Evaluation Toolkit
= = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oregon Mentors has posted a new online toolkit that can help mentoring programs measure a variety of indicators to better capture the outcomes of the valuable mentoring being done with young people throughout the state. Developed with the National Mentoring Center in Portland, Oregon, the toolkit provides advice on program evaluation and choosing the right instrument for an organization's evaluation or assessment needs. More than 60 individual instruments can be downloaded for free under various <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">keywords ranging from "Career and Vocational" to "Violence and Bullying." Surveys, scales and questionnaires also are available. To access the Evaluation Toolkit, visit [|www.oregonmentors.org] and click on the "Resource Library" link. For more information on mentoring, go to [|www.mentoring.org].