POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

High school students with disabilities and their stakeholders will enjoy watching this video http://video.google.com/videosearch?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS302US303&q=vocational%20education%20and%20training&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wv#q=vocational+schools+for+disabled&hl=en&emb=0&start=20 of other high students participating in the Postsecondary Education Rehabilitation Transition (PERT) Program at Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center in Virginia. With vocational assistance, high school students learn about jobs that peak their interest. The center provides one evaluator for every four students during instruction of 25 different job families. Students participate in career exploration, independent living skills testing, residential and social skills training and independent and group leisure activities.

Stakeholders of students with disabilities will find this book, Transition to Postsecondary Education for Students with Disabilities, to be an excellent source of information to help ease the transition to Postsecondary Education. The book discusses the transitional requirements of various postsecondary options, including colleges, universities, career and technical training programs, and employment. The cost of the paper back is 33.95 and the hard back is 72.95.

The information in this pamphlet, Students with Disabilities Preparing for Postsecondary Education: Know Your Rights and Responsibilities http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/transition.html, provided by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in the U. S. Department of Education, explains the rights and responsibilities of students with disabilities who are preparing to attend postsecondary schools. This pamphlet also explains the obligations of a postsecondary school to provide academic adjustments, including auxiliary aids and services, to ensure the school does not discriminate on the basis of disability.

Speaking of the law, http://www.daytonastate.edu/sds/statute.html this Floridian college provides the following Florida Statutes for persons with disabilities on its web page.

• F.S. 1999 Post-Secondary Education Chp. 240 [240.114(5) and 240.4041]
• F.S. 1989 Post Secondary Education Chp. 240 [240.152 and 240.153]

################################################### Florida High School/High Tech (HS/HT) http://www.abletrust.org/hsht/ is a community-based partnership designed to provide high school students with all types of disabilities the opportunity to explore jobs or postsecondary education leading to technology- related careers. HS/HT links youth to a broad range of academic, career development and experiential resources and experiences that will enable them to meet the demands of our workforce.