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Feature Issue on Parenting Teens and Young Adults with Disabilities
Published by the Institute on Community Integration (UCEDD) and the Research and Training Center on Community Living, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota • Volume 19• Number 2• Spring/Summer 2006
From the Editors
The passage from childhood to adulthood is a passage for families as well as individuals. As young people with disabilities move from their teen to adult years, they and their families experience many growing pains in common with all families at that stage of life. In addition, there are often milestones, questions, concerns, needs, and challenges unique to individuals with disabilities and their families. In this issue of Impact we explore strategies for families of teens and young adults with disabilities to consider in navigating the transition years with their young person, and share stories of those who are in the middle of it or have come out the other side.
For the generation of young people with disabilities reaching adulthood today there are ever-expanding opportunities to pursue adult lives that reflect their goals, dreams, ambitions, values, and life visions. And there are still barriers to that achievement – limitations in services, supports, resources, and options. It’s our hope that the articles in this Impact will provide a glimpse of what is possible, offer useful ideas for moving past some of the limitations that get in the way, and support families, teens, and young adults in dreaming big and realizing those dreams.
What's Inside
Overview Articles
Youth with Disabilities Just Want to Grow Up
Expectations, Reality, and the Road Ahead
The Family Life Cycle and Significant Intellectual Disability
Supporting Healthy Adolescent Development for Youth with Disabilities
Eight Effective Steps to Employment Success
Involving Youth with Disabilities in Community Service Activities
Postsecondary Education for Young Adults with Disabilities: What Families Can Do
Ways to Enhance Social Inclusion
Sex, Dating and Disability: How to Help Youth Make Healthy Choices
Learning Life Skills: The Resources Found in Centers for Independent Living
Person-Centered Planning for Students
Supporting Self-Advocacy for Youth
Assistive Technology and Transition Planning
Making a New Home: Options for Young Adults to Live Away From the Family Home
What Does Health Have to Do with Transition? Everything!
Honoring Values and Needs: Personalizing the Transition Planning Process
Supporting Culturally Sensitive Transition Planning for American Indian Youth
Personal Profiles
How to Avoid Being Roadkill on the Road to Transition
Graduation and Beyond: Beth’s Story
The Ups and Downs of Finding a Support Person: Andreas’ Story
If I’d Known Then What I Know Now...
Resources
Parents’ Suggested Timeline for Transition from School to Life
Publication Information
Managing Editor: Vicki Gaylord
Issue Editors:
John Agosta Human Services Research Institute, Portland, Oregon
Judy Barclay Full Life Ahead Foundation, Birmingham, Alabama
Kerri Melda Human Services Research Institute, Portland, Oregon
- Pam Stenhjem
- Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Impact is published quarterly by the Institute on Community Integration (UCEDD), and the Research and Training Center on Community Living, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota. This issue was supported, in part, by Grant #90DD0579 from the Administration on Developmental Disabilities, US Department of Health and Human Services; and Grant #H133B031116 from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, US Department of Education.
The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Institute, College, University, or their funding sources.For additional copies or information contact:
Institute on Community Integration University of Minnesota 109 Pattee Hall, 150 Pillsbury Drive SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 612/624-4512 icipub@umn.edu
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Retrieved from the Web site of the Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota (http://ici.umn.edu/products/impact/192/default.html). Citation: Gaylord, V., Agosta, J., Barclay, J., Melda, K. & Stenhjem, P. (Eds.). (2006). Impact: Feature Issue on Parenting Teens and Young Adults with Disabilities 19(2). [Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration.]
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