Illinois Center for Transition and Work

Customized Employment

• Customized Employment
• Employer Practices that Facilitate Employment of People with Disabilities
• Parent Perspectives of Postschool Employment
• Self-Employment
• Supported Employment
• Discovery: The First Phase of Customized Employment

Self-Determination

• Assessing Self-Determination Skills
• Self-Determination and Transition Planning
• Teaching Essential Self-Determination Skills
• Teaching Student Engagement in the Transition Planning Process
• Using Social and Emotional Learning to Improve Employability

Work-based Learning Experiences (WBLEs)

• Community Mapping
• Establishing School-Business Partnerships to Offer Work-Based Learning Experiences
• Overcoming Challenges to Building Successful Work-Based Learning Experiences 
• Preparing Paraprofessionals to be Job Coaches
• Project SEARCH
• Project SEARCH + ASD Supports
• Work-Based Learning Experiences

Work Related Topics

• Assistive Technology in the Workplace
• Career Exploration
• Culturally Responsive Transition Planning
• Functional Behavior Assessments in the Workplace
• Predictors of Postschool Success
• Using Employment Predictors to Build Quality Transition Plans