Career Education & Transition

Activities For Elementary And Middle School Students 

• The Acquisition of Elementary-Level Employment Skills by Students with Impairments
• Short-Term Programs at Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
• Skills for Success:  A Career Education Handbook for Children and Adolescents with Visual Impairments

Activities For High School Students

• Short-Term Programs at Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
• Skills for Success:  A Career Education Handbook for Children and Adolescents with Visual Impairments
• Summer Work Experience through Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
• Take Charge:  A Strategic Guide for Blind Job Seekers
• Transitions from School to Work:  Programs in Practice
• Transitions Tote System:  "Navigating the Rapids of Life"

Assessment 

• Assessment Kit:  Kit of Informal Tools for Academic Students with Visual Impairments
• Functional Skills Screening Inventory (FSSI)

College

• Preparing for College and Beyond
• Duxbury Systems
• College Board Services for Students with Disabilities

Curricula

• Basic Skills for Community Living: A Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities
• Basic Skills for Community Living:  Activity Routines
• Independent Living Skills:  A Curriculum with Adaptations for Students with Visual Impairments
• Transition Tote System:  "Navigating the Rapids of Life"

Deafblind 

• Supporting Young Adults Who Are Deaf-Blind in Their Community

Family Resources

• Business Owners Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
• Health Care Professionals Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
• Jobs to be Proud of:  Profiles of Workers Who Are Blind and Visually Impaired
• Teachers Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
• Texas Commission for the Blind

Instructional Aids/Materials

• American Printing House for the Blind (Products for Career Education)
• American Printing House for the Blind (Products for Business and Vocational Education)

Instructional Strategies

• Basic Skills for Community Living: A Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities
• Basic Skills for Community Living:  Activity Routines
• Career Education For Applied Academics
• Career Education in Foundations of Education, Second Edition, Volume II:  Instructional Strategies for Teaching Children and Youths with Visual Impairments
• Career Perspectives:  Interviews with Blind and Visually Impaired Professionals
• Easing A Blind Student's Transition to Employment
• Independent Living:  A Curriculum with Adaptations for Students with Visual Impairments

MIVI

• Basic Skills for Community Living:  A Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities
• Basic Skills for Community Living:  Activity Routines

Resources 

• Career Connect
• Career Education for Applied Academics
• Career Perspectives:  Interviews with Blind and Visually Impaired Professionals
• Jobs to Be Proud of:  Profiles of Workers Who Are Blind and Visually Impaired
• Skills for Success:  A Career Education Handbook for Children and Adolescents with With Visual Impairments 
• Texas Commission for the Blind
• Who Moved My Cheese?

Role Models/Mentors For Students

• Business Owners Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
• Career Connect
• Career Perspectives:  Interviews with Blind and Visually Impaired Professionals
• Health Care Professional Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
• Teachers Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired

Transition

• Easing A Blind Student's Transition to Employment
• National Transition Network Parent Brief - Winter 1996
• How Can I Participate In Transition Planning?
• Texas Commission for the Blind
• Transition Tote System:  "Navigating the Rapids of Life"

Vocational Education Training

• Summer Work Experience - Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
• Texas Commission for the Blind
• Transition from School to Work:  Programs in Practice

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Career Education Resources

ID #	Title	Annotation	Author	Media	Category
CE1	Career Perspectives:  Interviews with Blind and Visually Impaired Professionals	This book contains the stories of how 20 different people, blind or visually impaired, decided on a professional career and achieved career success. ISBN: 0-89128-170-3	M. Attmore		Instructional Strategies, Resources
CE2	Jobs to Be Proud of:  Profiles of Workers Who Are Blind and Visually Impaired	This book focuses on twelve people who are blind or visually impaired and looks at the jobs they do, why they chose the job, how their visual impairment impacts their job, and gives information about pay and benefits. ISBN: 0-89128-258-0	D. Kendrick		Family Resources, Resources
CE3	Supporting Young Adults Who Are Deaf-Blind in Their Communities:  A Transition Planning Guide for Service Providers, Families, and Friends	The goal of this book is to guide service providers, family members, and friends in providing transition services to young adults who are deaf-blind.  As such, it represents an effort to express the unique needs of the deafblind population and to integrate best practices into their transition services. ASIN: 1557661618	J. M. Everson, Ed.		Deafblind
CE4	Take Charge:  A Strategic Guide for Blind Job Seekers	This is a practical self-help guide based on the real-life experiences of bind job seekers.  (1990) 336 pages National Braille Press ISBN: 0939173166	R. Rabbi & D. Croft		Activities for High School Students
CE5	Transitions from School to Work:  Programs in Practice	This is a collection of information on several diverse programs and practices.  These programs represent collaborative efforts that facilitate the transition of disabled youth into appropriate adult environments. (1986). American Foundation for the Blind, New York. 187 pp.	F. Simpson, K. M. Heubner, F.K. Roberts.		Activities for High School Students, Voc. Ed. Training
CE6	Transitions Tote System:  "Navigating the Rapids of Life"	This is a tool designed to prepare high school students who are blind or visually impaired for the world of work.	K. Wolffe & D. Johnson		Activities for High School Students, Curricula, Transition
CE7	The Acquisition of Elementary-Level Employment Skills by Students with Impairments	The purpose of the study was to develop an instrument for identifying the entry-level nonacademic competenccies for employment that are needed by stgudents with visual impairments. In the first phase, 32 competencies that are required for the successful emplouyment of adults with visual impairments wee validated and rank ordered. In the second phase, an instrument with 464 entry-level competencies was developed and administered to 53 students with visual impairments. Significant differences wre found on 13 competencies based on the age and the level of visual acuity of the learners. Overall, students with visual impairments mastered 148 subcompetencies by age 18. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 84(9), pp.456-460.  (Nov. 1990)	Demario, N., Rex, E. & Morreau, L.		Activities for Elem. And Middle School Students
CE8	Assessment Kit:  Kit of Informal Tools for Academic Students with Visual Impairments	This kit brings together informal checklists, suggestions for format assessment materials that you may want to buy, informal reading inventories, and assessments of compensatory skill areas.	D. Sewell, Ed.		Assessment
CE9	Career Education For Applied Academics	This booklet includes the philosophy, policies, and procedures for the career education program at the school.	none provided		Instructional Strategies, Resources
CE10	Easing A Blind Student's Transition to Employment	Suggestions about career education programs to parents and teachers from a blind person's perspective. RE:view. (23)2,  pp. 85-90.	Agnes Ferris		Instructional Strategies, Transition
CE11	Summer Work Experience through WALIC and SWEAT	TSBVI provides job related opportunities for students from 14-21 to take part in during the summers in Austin, Texas.  (Texas students only)	N/A		Activities for High School Students, Voc. Ed. Training
CE12	Short-Term Programs at Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired	TSBVI offers one week and weekend classes during the school year for intensive learning in specific areas. (Texas students only)	N/A		Activities for Elem. And Middle School Students, Activities for High School Students
CE13	American Printing House for the Blind (Products for Business and Vocational Education)	Products specifically designed for those with visual impairments.	N/A		Instructional Aids and Materials
CE14	American Printing House for the Blind (Products for Career Education)	Products specifically designed for those with visual impairments.	N/A		Instructional Aids and Materials
CE15	Health Care Professionals Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired	This book provides profiles of 15 different successful health care professionals.  A great source book of role models for aspiring students. ISBN: 0-89128-388-9	D. Kendrick		Family Resources, Role Models/Mentors for Students
CE16	Teachers Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired	The author interviewed 18 different people who have become teachers.  They discuss the challenges of both teaching and being visually impaired. ISBN: 0-89128-306-4	D. Kendrick		Family Resources, Role Models/Mentors for Students
CE17	Business Owners Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired	This book features many different types of business owners who have visual impairments.  They discuss the challenges they face in their positions in addition to those brought on by having a visual impairment. ISBN: 0-89128-324-2	D. Kendrick		Family Resources, Role Models/Mentors for Students
CE18	Career Connect	This website contains tools to create a personal vocational profile, research job titles, tasks, related jobs. Matches can be made with blind mentors - database continually growing.	N/A		Resources, Role Models/Mentors for Students
CE19	Skills for Success:  A Career Education Handbook for Children and Adolescents with Visual Impairments	Provides activities for helping prepare the very young through teenage students with success in the workplace. ISBN: 0-89128-943-7	K. Wolffe, Ed.		Activities for Elementary and Middle School Students, Activities for High School Students, Resources
CE20	Who Moved My Cheese?	Not blindness specific, but focuses on change in the workplace (National Braille Press sells this book in braille at http://www.nbp.org/) ISBN: 0399144463	Spencer Johnson, Kenneth H. Blanchard		Resources
CE21	Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services - Division for Blind Services	This website provides an overview of the services available from the TCB.  Career counseling, vocational training and program overviews are found at this website. (Texas residents only.)	N/A		Family Resources, Resources, Transition, Voc. Ed. Training
CE22	Career Education in Foundations of Education, Second Edition, Volume II, Instructional Strategies for Teaching Children and Youths with Visual Impairments	This chapter thoroughly discusses career education and instructional strategies for teaching about the work place and job skills. ISBN: 0-89128-339-0	K. Wolffe		Instructional Strategies
CE23	Functional Skills Screening Inventory (FSSI)	The FSSI assesses critical living and working skills in persons with moderate to severe impairments.	H. Becker, S. Schur, M. Paoletti Schelp, & E. Hammer		Assessment
CE24	Basic Skills for Community Living:  A Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities	This curriculum is particularly designed for students who learn best within highly structured routines and who have great difficulty generalizing what they learn to new situations.	N. Levack, S. Hauser, L. Newton and P. Stephenson, Eds.		Curricula, Instructional Strategies, MIVI
CE25	Independent Living Skills:  A Curriculum with Adaptations for Students with Visual Impairments	This curriculum serves as a resource and guide for assessment, evaluation and instruction of students with visual impairments in the realm of independent living skills.	R. Loumiet and N. Levack		Curricula, Instructional Strategies
CE26	Basic Skills for Community Living:  Activity Routines	Specific activities are broken down into routines for those students with visual and multiple disabilities.	P. Stephenson		Curricula, Instructional Strategies, MIVI
CE27	Preparing for College and Beyond	This book (available in braille and large print) is a comprehensive handbook for those with visual impairments who are seeking higher education. Topics include assistive technology, textbooks, registration and more.	J. Dote-Kwan and J. Senge		College
CE28	Duxbury Systems	DBT WIN 10.3+ can be used with Scientific Notebook files to create math materials in Nemeth Code. See MacKichan. MegaMath can also be used to create math materials in Nemeth Code.	N/A		College
CE29	College Board Services for Students with Disabilities	This site provides information about the Advanced Placement (AP), PSAT/NMSQT, and SAT testing for the visually impaired.	N/A		Assessment
CE30	National Transition Network Parent Brief - Winter 1996	This document provides an overview of the transition planning process. It includes skills and activities to be completed as early as 5 years before leaving the school district, and annually thereafter.	N/A		Transition
CE31	How Can I Participate In Transition Planning	This document provides information for students to better help them participate in the transition process.	N/A		Transition