Illinois Center for Transition and Work

Customized Employment

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

 

 

Pathways to Employment

• Building Capacity for Summer Employment
• Expanding Employment Opportunities through Community Conversations
  

 

Self-determination

• Assessing Self-Determination Skills
• Self-Determination: The Engine Powering Transition Planning and Education
• Teaching Student Engagement in the Transition Planning Process
• Teaching Essential Self-Determination Skills

 

Transition assessment

• Employment and Life Skills Assessments
• Functional Vocational Assessment
• Illustrated and Video Career Interest Assessments
• Introduction to Transition Assessment
• Postsecondary Education Interests and Skills Assessment
• Transition Assessment and Goal Generator (TAGG)
• Written Career Interest Assessments

 

Work-based learning experiences (WBLE)

• Community Resource Mapping
• Establishing School-Business Partnerships to Offer Work-Based Learning Experiences
• Overcoming Challenges to Providing Work-Based Learning Experiences
• Project SEARCH
• Project SEARCH + ASD Supports
• School-Based Enterprises

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)

• Counseling on Opportunities for Enrollment in Comprehensive Transition or Post-Secondary Educational Programs
• Instruction in Self-Advocacy
• Job Exploration Counseling
• Overview of WIOA’s Pre-employment Transition Services Requirements
• Work-Based Learning Experiences
• Workplace Readiness

Other topics

• Assistive Technology in the Workplace
• Career Exploration
• Culturally Responsive Transition Planning
• Employability Skills
• Functional Behavior Assessments in the Workplace
• Interagency Collaboration Evaluations
• Predictors of Postschool Success
• The Importance of Transition Planning in Middle School
• Using Ecological Assessments to Identify Workplace Social Skills for Instruction
• Using Employment Predictors to Build Quality Transition Plans
• Workplace Social Skills