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Feight, Heidi; Bell, Breanna; Conway, Ashley; Turner, Shannon; Naigus, Neal; Powers, Laurie – Research and Training Center for Pathways to Positive Futures, 2016
This tip sheet offers strategies to college faculty and staff to support students from foster care to succeed in college.
Descriptors: Young Adults, Foster Care, College Students, Academic Achievement
Roy, Sean – National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth, 2015
This Information Brief is intended to assist administrators as well as faculty and staff in postsecondary education settings to better understand the value of engaging families of students with disabilities as partners in their students' success. In response to input received during a national online dialogue in 2015, ideas and resources are…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Family Programs, Disabilities, Family Attitudes
Coyle, Jennifer; Morrison, Mary; Thomas, Della – pepnet 2, 2017
In 2011, pepnet 2 launched the Deaf Learner Initiative (DLI). The goals of this initiative were to examine the existing paradigms, programs, pedagogy and relevant research related to the educational and vocational needs of deaf learners. The DLI was comprised of a variety of activities including the Deaf Learner Symposium, the creation of three…
Descriptors: Deafness, Young Adults, Hearing Impairments, Evidence Based Practice
Johnston, Susan S.; Reichle, Joe; Feeley, Kathleen M.; Jones, Emily A. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2012
With more children and young adults with severe disabilities in today's general education classrooms, SLPs and other professionals must be ready to support their students' communication skills with effective AAC. They'll get the proven strategies they need with this intervention guide from top AAC experts, ideal for use as an in-service…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Intervention, Quality of Life, Disabilities
Nippold, Marilyn A., Ed.; Scott, Cheryl M., Ed. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009
School success in the 21st century requires proficiency with expository discourse--the use and understanding of informative language in spoken and written modalities. This occurs, for example, when high school students read their textbooks and listen to their teachers' lectures, and later are asked to demonstrate their knowledge of this complex…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Text Structure, Intervention
Bachman, Jerald G.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Schulenberg, John E.; Johnston, Lloyd D.; Freedman-Doan, Peter; Messersmith, Emily E. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2007
Does success in school protect teenagers from drug use? Does drug use impair scholastic success? This book tackles a key issue in adolescent development and health--the education-drug use connection. The authors examine the links and likely causal connections between educational experiences, delinquent behavior, and adolescent use of tobacco,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Delinquency, Marijuana, Cocaine
Crystal, Ralph M., Comp. – 1982
The report covers issues in the rehabilitation of persons with learning disabilities (LD). Issues raised in an interdisciplinary conference on the rehabilitation needs of adolescents and adults with LD are identified for four areas (sample subtopics in parentheses): (1) definition, assessment, and service delivery (characteristics of effective…
Descriptors: Adults, Educational Needs, Employment, Learning Disabilities
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education, 2008
This guide to self-evaluation and improvement builds upon the advice given in the publication "A Guide to Evaluating Services for Children and Young People Using Quality Indicators" (HMIE, 2006) (A summary of the quality indicators is reproduced in Appendix I). Local authorities, agencies and professionals who have responsibilities for…
Descriptors: Health Services, Child Welfare, Social Work, Young Adults
Flannery, Daniel J. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005
Clinical psychologist Daniel J. Flannery reveals the impact of violence and victimization in the lives of children and adolescents from a developmental perspective. He explores how young people experience violence in their everyday lives and how this impacts their mental health and ability to cope with challenges and crises. His case studies show…
Descriptors: Prevention, Intervention, Young Adults, Public Health
Turk, Blossom M.; Jacobs, Marjorie L. – 1995
This book provides adolescents the information and skills they need to deal with dating and their awakening sexuality. It offers students in middle school, high school, and college an opportunity to examine and discuss their own feelings, attitudes, and behaviors as they relate to relationships. To allow facilitators in family life education…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dating (Social), Friendship, Interpersonal Communication
Wikelund, Karen Reed; Conklin, Nancy Faires – 1989
This training manual is designed for use by volunteers, tutors, teachers, and education and training program coordinators who wish to adapt basic literacy instructional skills to street youth. It is not intended to be a stand-alone training program for new volunteer tutors. Major goals are the following: (1) to re-engage street youth in the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Dropouts
Wikelund, Karen Reed – 1989
This manual explains the role and responsibilities of case managers employed by social service agencies participating in the Takin' It to the Streets program in Portland (Oregon). It is a companion volume to "Basic Skills Training for Street Youth: A Manual for Volunteer Tutors." Takin' It to the Streets is a volunteer project designed…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Role, Basic Skills, Caseworkers