Unlocking Potential: Facilitating the Transition Process for Students with Autism
The focus of this module is on supporting middle and high school students with autism by unlocking their potential and facilitating their transition process. The learner objectives include broadening perspectives on student strengths through tools that highlight these strengths across four themes, integrating these strengths into transition planning, discovering resources to enhance skills, and exploring opportunities to connect with agencies for additional support and resources.
Designing Impactful Transition Plans with the ARCS Framework (87 minutes)
Think ARCS when identifying student strengths (6 minutes)
ARCS: Attributes to Describe Student Qualities (4 minutes)
Activity: Identifying Attributes (2 minutes)
Describe, Label, Praise: Helping Students Understand their Attributes (4 minutes)
Transition Assessment: Strengths & Attributes (10 minutes)
Activity: Attributes throughout the Day (2 minutes)
Activity Debrief: Attributes (7 minutes)
ARCS: Relationships (10 minutes)
Activity: Relationships to Support Success (3 minutes)
Activity Debrief: Relationships (3 minutes)
ARCS: Contexts = Environment (5 minutes)
Activity: How to Create a Community Resource Map (5 minutes)
Activity Debrief: Community Resource Mapping (3 minutes)
Activity: Integrating ARCS to Build a Comprehensive Transition Plan (16 minutes)
Activity: Skills throughout the Day (4 minutes)
Maximizing the Transition Plan with Student Strengths (10 minutes)
Transition Curriculum: Project Discovery Kits (38 minutes)
Project Discovery Kits: Curriculum to Support Transition Skills (6 minutes)
Project Discovery Kits: Benefits for Programming (17 minutes)
Pathways to Employment: Nebraska VR Pre-ETS Overview (33 minutes)
Nebraska VR: Connection to Other Services (4 minutes)
Nebraska VR: Resources at the IEP (5 minutes)
Nebraska VR: What can services look like after graduation? (3 minutes)
Nebraska VR: Question & Answer (14 minutes)
Disability Support Services in College Introduction: Metropolitan Community College (7 minutes)
Understanding Disability Support Services in College (56 minutes)
MCC: Role of Disability Support Services (6 minutes)
MCC: Requesting Accommodations (12 minutes)
MCC: Disability Support Services FAQs (8 minutes)
MCC: Accommodations and Modifications (8 minutes)
MCC: What Students Need to Know (4 minutes)
MCC: Teaching the Impact of Disability on Learning (5 minutes)
Beyond the Plan: Applying M-CAPS Across the Day (7 minutes)
Ready-to-Use Strategies for Effective Transition Planning (17 minutes)
Video Case Study: Jacob and Student-Led IEP Involvement (14 minutes)
Practical Strategies to Strengthen Transition Planning (3 minutes)