Resources and Links

Vocational Rehabilitation Independent Living Project - Directory of Exemplary Programs and Practices
http://www.infouse.com/vr-il/dir_exemp_1.html

Non-Degree Postsecondary Options for Individuals with Disabilities
http://www.heath.gwu.edu/Templates/Newsletter/NewsletterArchives.htm

Pathways to Employment: Nondegree Postsecondary Options for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities (Part II)
http://www.heath.gwu.edu/Templates/Newsletter/NewsletterArchives.htm

Institute on Rehabilitation Issues - Download the report from the 25th IRI 1999: Serving Individuals who are Low-Functioning Deaf
http://www.gwu.edu/~rrcep/IRI.htm

As the #1 career site in the deaf community, HireDeaf.com has more qualified traffic, more unique visitors and more job seeker accounts than any other site in the deaf community. HireDeaf.com provides a highly resourceful and dynamic exchange between opportunity seekers and employers.
http://www.hiredeaf.com

Transition and Post-School Outcomes for Youth with Disabilities: Closing the Gaps to Post-Secondary Education and Employment (National Council on Disability - Social Security Administration; November 1, 2000)
http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/transition_11-1-00.html

National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth) - Navigating the Road to Work
http://www.ncwd-youth.info/

Career Planning and Employment Strategies for Postsecondary Students with Disabilities
http://www.heath.gwu.edu/ResourceGuides.htm

Youth Preparing for Tomorrow Conference Report
http://www.ssa.gov/work/Youth/youth_conference.html

Social Security Online - Ticket to Work Program
http://www.ssa.gov/work/Ticket/ticket_info.html

Transition Planning and Programming: Empowerment Through Partnership (by Marita Danek and Howard Busby) Sharing Ideas: A Series of Occasional Papers
http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/products/Sharing-Ideas/transition/index.html

How Public Input Shapes the Clerc Center's Priorities: Identifying Critical Needs in Transition from School to Postsecondary Education and Employment (by Judith M. LeNard) Sharing Results series
http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/products/Sharing-Results/PI/index.html

DecisionMaker: A Student-Directed Transition Program
http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/products/decisionmaker.html

Odyssey magazine - transition issue Summer 2001
http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Odyssey/Summer2001/index.html

Real Times, Real Life Online Game
http://www.realgame.org/viewContent.cfm/group/11/article/251

Practical Money Skills for Life
http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/index.php

Learning Disabilities and Deafness: Deaf Students With Language Processing Disorders
http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/SupportServices/series/6001.html

National Deaf Business Institute
The National Deaf Business Institute's (NDBI) commitment is to advance entrepreneurship by the deaf through education, research and outreach. Through its programs, NDBI aims to help empower the deaf community by increasing the number of deaf-owned businesses and deaf professionals.
http://www.ndbi.org/

Global Deaf Connection
Global Deaf Connection is increasing social, economic and educational opportunities for Deaf people in developing nations. Based on the premise that education leads to opportunity, Global Deaf Connection (GDC) was created to bridge the gap between the number of Deaf children enrolled in school at an elementary level and the number of Deaf adults in the professional world by improving Deaf Education in these countries.
http://www.deafconnection.org/stories/0/64.cfm

Deaf people from minority ethnic groups: initiatives and services
Research by Waqar Ahmad, Aliya Darr, Lesley Jones and Gohar Nisar notes a number of developments involving deaf people or their families across the United Kingdom. The authors note that while statutory and voluntary sectors are beginning to respond to the needs of deaf people from minority ethnic groups, many barriers to social inclusion and appropriate services remain to be tackled.
http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialcare/SCR818.as