Inclusion & Postsecondary Planning and Transition Resources
Recommended by the Toronto Family Network
Revised May 2013
Inclusion
- New Attitudes, People First Language, Inclusive Education, Redefining Disability, Strategies for All, Free Newsletters, etc.
- "A Few Words about People First Language"
- "The Case Against 'Special Needs'"
- "Mainstreaming, Integration, Inclusion: Is There a Difference?"
- "Inclusive Education or What's So Special About Special Education?"
- "Inclusive Education: A Principal's Perspective"
- "A Time for Thanks"
- – The Negative Effects of Separating Children with Disabilities
- What Does the Research Say about Inclusive Education?
- "Retaliation: A Primer"and the "Retaliation Triangle"
- Strengthening Inclusion, Strengthening Schools
Open file on Inclusive Education: Support Materials for Managers and Administrators is a world-wide collaboration between researcher, administrators and practitioners to guide systems making the transition to inclusion. (Copy Provided)
-Overcoming Exclusion through Inclusive Approaches in Education. A challenge and a vision
-Changing Teaching Practices: Using curriculum differentiation to respond to students' diversity
for Inclusion. Ensuring Access to Education for All
and responding to Children’s Needs in Inclusive Classrooms. A guide for teachers
-The Toolkit on Inclusive Education
- Strengthening Inclusion, Strengthening Schools Report of the Review of Inclusive Education Programs and Practices in New Brunswick Schools
- Connection between Inclusion and Health by Vianne Timmons & Maryam Wagner
- Dr. Sheila Bennett
- Inclusion of Special Education Students doesn’t affect classmates’ education
Research on Inclusive Education
– Rationale for and Research on Inclusive Education
- The Delivery of Education Services For Students Who Have an Intellectual Disability in the Province Of Ontario by Community Living Ontario
- Inclusive Education Knowledge Exchange Initiative: An Analysis of the Statistics Canada Participation and Activity Limitation
"Does inclusion work for special education students?" (Tuesday, February 28, 2012)
- Defining a Rights Based Framework: Advancing Inclusion of Students with Disabilities – A summary of the Canadian Association of Statutory Human Rights Agencies 2008 National Forum
Postsecondary Planning and Transition
- Your Rights in Post-Secondary Education by ARCH Disability Law Centre, March 28th, 2013. Power Point Presentation entitled “Accommodating Needs of Students in Post Secondary Education.”
– Transition Planning
- Transition Planning: A Resource Guide, 2002
– The Transition-Planning Process for Individual Students from Transition Planning: A Resource Guide
- Students with Disabilities
- Special Education: A Guide for Educators
- Special Needs Students and Transitions to Postsecondary Institutions by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, 2012
- Evaluating Postsecondary Supports for Students with Learning Disabilities, 2012
– Disability in Ontario: Postsecondary education participation rates, student experience and labour market
outcomes @ Issue Paper No. 14, February 21, 2013
- A Report on the Postsecondary Decisions of High-Achieving Students in Ontario@ Issue Paper No. 13 November 15, 2012
- Transition from high school to postsecondary education.
- Enhancing Accessibility in Post-Secondary Institutions.
- Ontario Postsecondary Supports for Students with a Disability
- Transition Planning Resource Guide for Students with Learning Disabilities, 2009
- Pathways to Post-Secondary: ATRANSITION GUIDE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES TO HUMBER COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & ADVANCED LEARNING AND THE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH-HUMBER, 2008
- The Learning & Teaching Office – Disability Awareness
– Faculty Resource Guide: Teaching Students with Disabilities
- Understanding Different Disabilities, October 26th, 2012
- The 5 minute accessibility make-over, November 29th, 2012
- Transition Tools and Guides
- Accommodations, Learning Strategies,Assistive Technology, and Universal Design for Instruction, College Committee on Disability Issues, July 2008
- Introduction to accommodations and inclusive teaching practices, 2011
Backgrounder
– Students with Disabilities
- Post-secondary education in “The opportunity to succeed: Achieving barrier-free education for students with disabilities.”
- Accommodating students with disabilities – Roles and responsibilities.
– Transition to Post-secondary for students (and their parents) with Learning Disabilities, January 19, 2012 by Maureen Haig, York University.
Contact Info:
Toronto Family Network
416-484-1536
Janis Jaffe-White, Coordinator
Reva Schafer, Resource Parent