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Middle School Transition
The Virginia Department of Education and the Partnership for People with Disabilities are working together to develop an interactive website for middle school students with more significant disabilities and their parents to engage in a process of self-identity and planning for the future.
The website will enable middle school students with more significant disabilities, along with their parents, to identify strengths, challenges and interests, and their post-high school visions and to develop a plan for their middle school and high school years that will lead to a life they have identified for themselves. The interactive and engaging website will include activities for developing a personal profile (Who Am I?) and lead the user to taking an animated tour of a community like their own and explore options about where people work/volunteer, live, eat, hang out and have recreational opportunities. The personal characteristics and choices about their desires for their future will result in a personal “profile” that can be printed and shared with the student’s IEP team.
Major Activities:
- Hold a focus group with middle schoolers to determine content, look, and extent of website.
- Contract with a computer company to develop the interactive website
- Pilot the website with the Virginia Department of Education and with middle schoolers and their parents.
- Post and advertise the interactive middle school transition website.
Contact:
Dana Yarbrough, Project Director, (804) 828-0352 or dvyarbrough@vcu.edu
Melanie Sterling, Principal Investigator, (804) 827-0197 or mrsterli@vcu.edu
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