Idaho Training Clearinghouse
Secondary Transition for Students with a Significant Disability (Session 1 of 3)
FULL TITLE:
Secondary Transition for Students with a Significant Disability: Improving Outcomes and Raising Expectations (Session 1 of 3)
SPONSORED BY:
Idaho State Department of Education (SDE)
EVENT ORGANIZER:
For more information, contact: Janice Carson at janicec@uidaho.edu
DATE & TIME:
April 30, 2025, 3:00-5:00 Pacific / 4:00-6:00 Mountain
Secondary Transition for Students with a Significant Disability - Register for Session 1
SERIES DESCRIPTION:
This series will begin by discussing raising the expectations for students with disabilities to live, work, and participate in their communities. Customized Employment and discovery strategies will be introduced to provide tools for working toward a successful placement. In session two, the focus moves toward providing information and instruction to students and having high expectations for quality task performance and independence. The final session will discuss how to develop a post-high school community through outside agencies and resources.
Session 1 Title: Creating a Vision for Life After School
Session 1 Description: This first session discusses how to raise the expectations of what is possible for students with significant disabilities to live, work and participate in their communities. The concept of Customized Employment will be introduced as a way to envision a working life for all students and the audience will get the opportunity to try out a few discovery strategies that they can use to get to know their own students in terms of interests, skills, tasks and ideal conditions for success.
Session 2 Title: Supporting Students to Become Competent, Confident, and Independent
Session 2 Description: The second session will stress the importance of providing information and instruction to students and having high expectations for quality task performance. When we don’t invest in training, we perpetuate the stereotype that people with disabilities can’t perform complicated tasks or that they need a support person with them at all times. Systematic Instruction strategies developed by Dr. Marc Gold will be shared with the audience.
Session 3 Title: Connecting Students and Families with Outside Agencies
Session 3 Description: The final session will share information on outside agencies and resources that can provide support to students while they are in high school and after they graduate. Examples of interagency linkages leading to successful student outcomes as well as tools to capture and share student information will be shared.
PRESENTER:
Ellen Condon
PRESENTER BIO:
Ellen Condon, M.Ed. is the Transition and Employment Projects Co-Director at the University of Montana's Rural Institute on Disabilities where she has worked since 1996 on Transition and Employment for youth with significant disabilities. Condon serves as the Principal Investigator on the Montana DeafBlind Project and has worked as a Transition Consultant for the National Center on Deafblindness since 2017. Condon is senior consultant with Marc Gold & Associates (MG&A) and a subject matter expert for ODEP, the Office of Disability Employment Policy. She has provided technical assistance, training, and on-site support to schools, agencies, and individuals and families predominantly in the areas of customized employment, transition, and systematic instruction.
Prior to coming to Montana her experiences included hands-on service delivery, program development and program management in community residential and supported employment programs. She received her Master's degree in Special Education from Boston College in 1990 after completing course work in Transition and Supported Employment.
When she isn’t at work, Ellen is outside hiking, skiing or playing with her numerous animals
CREDIT:
This course is available for Summer 2025 inservice credit through the University of Idaho (UI). Enrollment for this course opens April 21, 2025 and closes on July 1, 2025. Go to Idaho Training Clearinghouse For Credit page for more information.
SPECIAL NEEDS:
If you need special accommodations, please contact the event organizer listed above.