Transition and EBD:

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Transition and EBD

• Issues and Possible Solutions

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Need areas

• Self-advocacy
• Employment
• Post high school education
• Parenting
• Community

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Self Advocacy

• What is my disability?
• How is it manifested?
• What does that mean for me?
• What accommodations will I need?
• Education
• Job site
• Other

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Employment Statistics

• 47.4 competitive employment 3-5 years out of
  high school (69.4 in general population)
• 52 unemployment 4 years out of high school
  (highest of any disability area)

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Employment Issues

• Fewer hours or part-time
• More jobs over lifespan
• Tend to start later in job force
• Predictors of successful competitive employment
  male, white, Voc. Ed. while in high school,
  graduation

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Solutions

• Teach social skills!!
• Consider student interest, preference, motivation
• Provide job orientation
• Have a plan for on-going support crisis
  intervention

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Social Skills

• Anger management
• Cognitive behavioral interventions
• Empathy training
• Social skills
• Job seeking
• Work adjustment
• Interactions with supervisor
• Interactions with co-workers
• Exiting a job
• Social skill mechanics body language, attention
• Problem solving

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High School Completion

• 48.4 graduate - 14 times lower than non-disabled
  peers
• Risk factors for early school-exiting
• Lower functional skills
• Lack of vocational education in high school
• Failure to address social/emotional/behavioral
  needs
• Push for absolute standards of achievement in
  fully inclusive classes with little effort to
  provide modification or meet emotional needs

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Post High School Education

• 25.6 enroll in any post-secondary education
  (only youth with CD multiple disabilities were
  lower)
• Vocational training 15.4
• 2-year college 10.1
• 4-year college 4.2
• Smart enough isnt the issue

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Solutions

• Start early with goal setting
• Self-advocacy
• Related issues financial aid, housing,
  transportation
• Non-traditional options
• On-line
• Correspondence
• Independent study, self-designed programs
• Internships, apprenticeships, support from
  employer

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Parenthood Statistics

• 3-5 years out of high school
• 18.2 of EBD males are parents
• 48.4 of EBD females are parents
• EBD females are 6 times more likely
• To have had multiple pregnancies
• To have lost custody of their babies

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Issues

• Prenatal postnatal care for the mother
• Infant care
• Day care
• Parenting skills
• Grandparents?

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Solutions

• Independent, community based projects
• Double dip with regular education
• Classes in the high school
• Technical college courses
• Bartering in community based services

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Community

• Living
• Leisure
• Accessing services
• Transportation
• Citizenry
• Legal assistance
• Voting
• Available services

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Solutions

• Community based activities
• Teach generalization and provide opportunities to
  practice
• Are we including the student now to the
  detriment of future inclusion in the community?

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Other

• Use IEP to create alternatives
• Double dip
• More employable
• Best practices
• Relatively low staff-to-student ratios
• Unconditional care and zero-reject
• Relationships
• Located off campus and not solely through the
  school

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Resources

• Bullis Fredericks. Vocational and Transition
  Services for Adolescents with Emotional and
  Behavioral Disorders. Research Press, Champaign,
  IL.
• http//dpi.wi.gov/sped/ed.html
• Transition EBD Mental Health Fact Sheets
  Effective Programming for Students who are EBD
  Blueprints for Success Using Literature to Teach
  Social Skills more!