FREE

College & Career Forum for Students

With Disabilities, Parents, and Professionals

Where and When: Saturday, December 1, 2007

8:30 am to 2:40 pm

Johnson Center

George Mason University.

What: Students with disabilities and their parents can learn about educational and career opportunities for after high school. Speakers, workshops, and displays will cover all aspects of transition from school to the real world, including the college application process, financial aid, strategies for success, career planning, and career opportunities. Representatives from colleges, universities, technical schools, and adult service and advocacy agencies will be present to answer questions from students and parents.

Cost: All Future Quest activities are free and open to students with disabilities and their parents. For more information, contact the special education department in your local school division.

Registration: Online Registration is available here.

Keynote Speaker: The keynote speaker, Jonathan Mooney, is a writer and activist whose dyslexia kept him from learning to read until he was 12 years old. He is a graduate of Brown University, and co-founder of Project Eye-To-Eye, a widely duplicated mentoring program for students with disabilities. With the publication of Learning Outside the Lines when he was 23, a book that is part memoir and part guide to alternative study skills, Jonathan has established himself as one of the foremost leaders in LD/ADHD, disabilities, and alternative education. In the fall of 2005, Jonathan’s second book, The Short Bus Story, a work of creative non-fiction, was published.

More information on Jonathan Mooney is available here.

Session Topics: Listing of Workshops is available here. Complete program is available here.

Schedule of Sessions is available here.

List of Career and College Resources is available here.
List of Recommended Publications is available here.

Sponsors: Future Quest is sponsored by the Northern Virginia Transition Coalition (NVTC), a nonprofit collaborative partnership of six area public school systems (Alexandria City, Arlington County, Fairfax County, Falls Church City, Loudoun County, and Prince William County); George Mason University; Northern Virginia Community College; the Parent Education Advocacy Training Center; and the Virginia Department of Rehabilitative Services.

Parking: Free parking will be available in parking lots J and K, only a short walk to the Johnson Center. Paid parking for participants is available closer to the event location in the Mason Pond or Sandy Creek Parking Decks. If you require accessible parking for a vehicle over the height of 7 feet please contact GMU T/TAC at 703-993-4496 for directions to accessible parking.

Campus Map and Directions are available here.

Brown Bag Lunch: Limited lunch options will be available on the day of the event so we strongly recommend bringing a brown bag lunch.

Contact: For more information contact Chair, Karen Sherman, Arlington Public Schools, 703-228-2545, ksherman@arlington.k12.va.us

To request a sign language interpreter, please contact Karen Sherman at 703-228-2545 by Friday, November 16th, 2007.

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