- I'm
determined: A new
project developed
and sponsored by the Virginia Department
of Education’s
Training and Technical Assistance Centers,
focused on providing direct instruction,
models, and opportunities to practice skills
associated with self-determined behavior
beginning at the elementary level and continuing
through a student’s educational
career. Visit
I'm determined.
- VaCollegeQuest
Webinar Archives :: View the archives
of our Webinars:
- Learn
Your Rights and Responsibilities:
The U.S. Department of Education has updated
its informative guide, Students with Disabilities
Preparing for Postsecondary Education: Know
Your Rights and Responsibilities. Get the updated
guide here.
- Student
Summary of Performance: A new provision
in IDEA 2004 requires schools to provide students
with a “summary of performance”
upon school completion. Learn about this new
provision and how to use it to assist with transition
to higher education. Get
details here.
- Understanding
Virginia Diploma Options: This guide
helps parents and students understand the various
high school diplomas now offered in Virginia.
Download the FREE
9-page guide. (PDF)
- List
of Colleges that Deemphasize the SAT and
ACT
in Admissions: Browse more than 700
accredited, bachelor degree-granting institutions
which do not use the SAT I or ACT to make admissions
decisions about substantial numbers of freshman
applicants. Find it here.
- How do
your skills measure up? Use this checklist
of skills and behaviors to see how prepared
you are to take on the challenges of college
life.
- Guide
to College for Students with Disabilities: This
guide from Virginia’s Department of Education
provides loads of information on preparing for
college. Get
it here. (PDF,
91 pgs)
- Help
us spread the word about this Web site!
Download the VCQ Flyer
(PDF) to post and distribute.
- Tell
us what you think! We'd like your feeback
on this Web site. Fill out our quick survey.
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- College
4 U will be held Saturday, November
6, 2010 from 10 AM-2 PM at J.
Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Parham
Road Campus.
This annual event
provides information for college bound students
with disabilities and their parents/families. At
this event you can:
*
learn how to prepare for college;
* hear students' experiences and perspectives;
* see technology demonstrations;
* talk with Virginia college representatives;
* build knowledge of supports or resources.
Registration begins Sept. 1, 2010. For
more information contact Kathe
Wittig. Get the program
flyer here.
- Think
College!, in collaboration
with TASH,
is providing an exciting
five-part webinar series exploring challenging
and complex issues in postsecondary education
for people
with
intellectual
disabilities. Webinars will be conducted
on September 15, 22, 29 and October 6 and
13, 2010 from 3-4:30 P.M. EST. Get
Details here. Register
here.
- Future
Quest
2009 -
a biennial career and college forum
for students with disabilities,
parents and professionals -
was held November 21, 2009 at
George
Mason University in Fairfax. Many
of the
Session Handouts are available
here. The
next
Future
Quest
will
be held
on Saturday,
November
19, 2011.
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"I led
a life filled with the answers but had no way
to get them out. Often my thoughts and ideas
felt trapped. Sometimes I was so full of thoughts
that needed to get out, I would blurt them out
at the most inappropriate times and places.
But I had a dream to go on to college and to
go into a helping profession. So I had to figure
it out on my own."
-
Joy Cobb tells her
story.
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this listing
to locate the Web sites and contact the disability
support services coordinators of Virginia's
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