EMP 103 v2: Endless Possibility: Preparing Students with Significant Disabilities for Successful Transition to Employment

Guiding Questions: Answering the Questions for Success 

  • How do you prepare students with significant disabilities for employment?  
  • What is the role OVR plays and how does the Workforce Innovation & Opportunities Act (WIOA) affect transition?  Line 1
  • What is the role of Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) in preparing students with significant disabilities for employment?  
  • What is the Community Work Transition Project and what is its role in successful transition?  
  • Is post-secondary education a possibility?  
  • What resources/employment programs are out there for people with disabilities? Whom do they serve? What services do they provide? Where do you find them? 

Course developed by KentuckyWorks, funded by the US Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Administration for Community Living.

Before we begin, here are some of the terms used throughout this course: 

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About this Course

  • ? Check my Answer: these are activities to reflect on the question. Clicking Check my Answer will reveal the correct and incorrect answers.
  • ? Audio: clicking the play button will play the recorded audio for the lesson or topic. The transcript for the audio is available under the player.
  • ?Embedded Videos: Throughout the course there are videos from various YouTube channels. Many of these videos must be viewed in its entirety before moving on to the next topic.
  • ?️ Legal: copied regulation or statute.
  • This course is divided into Lessons and Topics. Each topic must be completed in order to move to the next Lesson.
  • A graded quiz to check your understanding of the topic(s) covered. Quizzes are complete when 80% of the questions are answered correctly. You may take the Check Your Knowledge and Final Course quizzes multiple times until 80% is achieved.
  • Questions? Use the Contact Us button below.

Photo Credit: Photo Credit: Kentucky Employment Files, Kristi – J. Barrett’s Hair School Nicholasville, KY

EMP 105: Family Engagement (Professional Version)

? The goal of this course is to promote the vision that everyone can work and has talents and skills to share with the world if given the proper support, including youth with the most significant disabilities.

A woman stands beside a dryer in a beauty salon, folding laundry.

About this Course

  • ? Check my Answer: these are activities to reflect on the question. Clicking Check my Answer will reveal the correct and incorrect answers.
  • ? Audio: clicking the play button will play the recorded audio for the lesson or topic. The transcript for the audio is available under the player.
  • ?Embedded Videos: Throughout the course there are videos from various YouTube channels. Many of these videos must be viewed in its entirety before moving on to the next topic.
  • ?️ Legal: copied regulation or statute.
  • This course is divided into Lessons and Topics. Each topic must be completed in order to move to the next Lesson.
  • A graded quiz to check your understanding of the topic(s) covered. Quizzes are complete when 80% of the questions are answered correctly. You may take the Check Your Knowledge and Final Course quizzes multiple times until 80% is achieved.
  • Questions? Use the Contact Us button below.

Photo Credit: Photo Credit: Kentucky Employment Files, Kristi – J. Barrett’s Hair School Nicholasville, KY

Course developed by KentuckyWorks, funded by the US Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Administration for Community Living.

TAALC 101: Listen Up Series (4.5 hours)

The TAALC Modules and Webinars below have been created by the Low Incidence Initiative-Teaching Academic Age-appropriate Learning via Communication (TAALC) program. The underlying premise of TAALC is all students can and do communicate, and TAALC presentations are designed to provide training and experience in identifying communicative competence for students with complex communication needs. The Listen UP series of modules was created to equip school teams and families with the skills needed to increase a student’s communicative competence.

Training Goals

Through video examples we will help you learn how to: ​

  • Recognize communication in students with complex communication needs​
  • Implement strategies for change for students with complex communication needs​
  • Understand factors that can limit communication​
  • Foster early communication with Alternative and Augmentative Communication ​
  • Utilize effective teaching behaviors​
  • Provide access to the curriculum by including communication throughout the day, and ​
  • Address communication implications for challenging behavior.  ​

EMP 102: Important Predictors for Post-High School Success (2021 Updated Version)

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Guiding Questions for Transition 102

  1. What are the strongest predictors of competitive employment for youth with significant disabilities?
  2. What life skills prepare students for life after high school?
A woman stands beside a dryer in a beauty salon, folding laundry.

About this Course

  • ? Check my Answer: these are activities to reflect on the question. Clicking Check my Answer will reveal the correct and incorrect answers.
  • ? Audio: clicking the play button will play the recorded audio for the lesson or topic. The transcript for the audio is available under the player.
  • ?Embedded Videos: Throughout the course there are videos from various YouTube channels. Many of these videos must be viewed in its entirety before moving on to the next topic.
  • ?️ Legal: copied regulation or statute.
  • This course is divided into Lessons and Topics. Each topic must be completed in order to move to the next Lesson.
  • A graded quiz to check your understanding of the topic(s) covered. Quizzes are complete when 80% of the questions are answered correctly. You may take the Check Your Knowledge and Final Course quizzes multiple times until 80% is achieved.
  • Questions? Use the Contact Us button below.

Photo Credit: Photo Credit: Kentucky Employment Files, Kristi – J. Barrett’s Hair School Nicholasville, KY

Course developed by KentuckyWorks, funded by the US Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Administration for Community Living.

EMP 104: Kentucky Works – Family Engagement for Parents with Transition-Aged Children with Disabilities

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? The goal of this course is to promote the vision that everyone can work and has talents and skills to share with the world if given the proper support, including youth with the most significant disabilities.

This course focuses on setting goals for employment from an early age, preparing for employment, and cultivating and sharing a vision for the future.

A woman stands beside a dryer in a beauty salon, folding laundry.

About this Course

  • ? Check my Answer: these are activities to reflect on the question. Clicking Check my Answer will reveal the correct and incorrect answers.
  • ? Audio: clicking the play button will play the recorded audio for the lesson or topic. The transcript for the audio is available under the player.
  • ?Embedded Videos: Throughout the course there are videos from various YouTube channels. Many of these videos must be viewed in its entirety before moving on to the next topic.
  • ?️ Legal: copied regulation or statute.
  • This course is divided into Lessons and Topics. Each topic must be completed in order to move to the next Lesson.
  • A graded quiz to check your understanding of the topic(s) covered. Quizzes are complete when 80% of the questions are answered correctly. You may take the Check Your Knowledge and Final Course quizzes multiple times until 80% is achieved.
  • Questions? Use the Contact Us button below.

Photo Credit: Photo Credit: Kentucky Employment Files, Kristi – J. Barrett’s Hair School Nicholasville, KY

Course developed by KentuckyWorks, funded by the US Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Administration for Community Living.