Illinois Center for Transition and Work

Customized Employment

• Customized Employment

• Discovery: The First Phase of Customized Employment

• Employer Practices and Attitudes that Facilitate Employment of People with Disabilities
• Parent Perspectives of Postschool Employment
• Self-Employment
• Supported Employment

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
• Using Social and Emotional Learning to Improve Employability

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
• Preparing Paraprofessionals to be Job Coaches
• Project SEARCH
• Project SEARCH + ASD Supports
• School-Based Enterprises

Work Related 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