Independent Living

This handbook is a parent’s guide to the On Campus Transition Residential Program option for students with intellectual disabilities attending the University of North Florida. The guide includes a description of the residential program, program rules and regulations, and general expectations for students participating in the residential program

The Arc Jacksonville On Campus Transition (OCT) program UNF offers a unique and innovative residential component to the program. Students are given the opportunity to engage in the same experiences of other college students who are learning how to live with their peers, independently from home.

This website provides downloadable curriculum for educators for all grade levels up to college. Content includes PDF lesson plans and corresponding PowerPoint slides addressing aspects of budgeting, including decision making, problem solving, vocabulary, and math. Resources for saving are listed under “Personal Finance”.

The module goal is to provide students with basic knowledge about the importance of eating a healthy diet in college.

A Power Point presentation explaining a program (Instructor’s Guide) designed to empower adults with ID/DD to meet their health care and wellness needs through improved communication.  The Power Point documents the 22-hour curriculum which includes slides, video, web-based resource, and print materials.

This research brief on the sexual health of youth involved in corrections is part one of a seven-part series on sexual health disparities of marginalized youth.

Offers young people tips on maintaining optimal health and the different barriers that may exist making it difficult to maintain healthy living.

Newsletter highlighting STING RAY students running IEP meetings

This module is defined to help the reader learn about personal finances and money management skills

This comprehensive list provides persons with various contact information regarding referrals, training, and peer support.

The goals for this module is to make students aware of the skills needed to live independently while attending college.

This Department of Transportation link provides contact information for each county in Florida. 

This guide is created to provide assistive service information and easy to find resources to help individuals with disabilities access services through Florida’s Transportation Disadvantaged Program and services.

The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA) provides demand response transportation services for people who, because of their disability, are unable to independently use the regular, accessible PSTA buses.

Provides checklists for students with specific disabilities that describe resources and services to investigate, people to contact, information to share, behaviors to practice, and more.

Participants will explore the value of having a PLAN before working with various agencies during transition.

The FAAST Mission is to improve the quality of life for all Floridians with disabilities through advocacy and awareness activities that increase access to and acquisition of assistive services and technology.

This site is an online source for downloading eBooks for free.

The purpose of this presentation is to provide a basic overview on the 3 most popular social media tools available in the market, identify some of the do’s and don’ts if joining any of these sites, and providing the audience with case scenarios in order to identify some of the dangers that can come along with the use of social media today.

The mission of this blog is to serve as a voice of a constant researcher in the field of educational and assistive technologies so that the best products, strategies and services may be located easily, in hopes that they will then be delivered, taught and used to better the lives of people with disabilities.

The National Center on Accessible Materials is a resource dedicated to implementing National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) and Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM) to improve print resources including braille, audio, large print, and electronic text.

This is section of the Apple website describing Apple’s commitment to accessibility.

This is a section of the Apple website dedicated to apps related to special education, including categories like literacy and learning, vision, hearing, and physical and motor skills.

Bookshare is an accessible online library for people with print disabilities.

Dropbox is a cloud-based storage service that allows a user to save documents, pictures, presentations, videos, etc. without taking up storage space on a computer.

This free app lets students or teachers create lessons on a virtual whiteboard while narrating the explanation.

Idea Sketch lets you easily draw a diagram – mind map, concept map, or flow chart – and convert it to a text outline, and vice versa.

Learning Ally’s collection of more than 75,000 digitally recorded textbooks and literature titles – downloadable and accessible on mainstream as well as specialized assistive technology devices

This link contains a list of apps for the following uses:  File Management; Graphic Organizers or Mind Mapping; Notetaking, Drafting, and Editing; Curriculum Organization; Assessment.

Mobile Learning 4 Special Needs is a Wiki site for professionals, families and service providers of students who are using the new Apple iPads, iTouches and iPhones.

Read2Go is the most accessible e-book reader app for readers with print disabilities.

Speech Journal is an iPad application that allows you to take pictures and record audio over them.

This handbook provides parents with needed tools to help their students transition to on-campus living.

The goals for this module is to make students aware of the skills needed to live independently while attending college.

This presentation highlights the opportunities available to students choosing to participate in The Arc Jacksonville On Campus Transition program on the subject of independent living.

This pilot program supported four school districts in implementing projects for all students regardless of their abilities in order to build leadership skills and increase student knowledge of disability rights and accessible transportation.

Easter Seals Project ACTION, with a long history in supporting a transportation continuum for students with disabilities in transition from K12 to postsecondary settings, will offer replicable strategies to build transportation education programs across the educational spectrum.

This training manual, developed at the Clerc Center, is intended to train students for safe and independent travel.

This Department of Transportation link provides contact information for each county in Florida. 

This guide is created to provide assistive service information and easy to find resources to help individuals with disabilities access services through Florida’s Transportation Disadvantaged Program and services.

This page provides resources on transportation for people with disabilities as well as useful links and laws and regulations relating to people with disabilities.

This site provides links to Community Transportation Coordinator Contact Information by County as well as other useful links relating to public transportation.

This publication provides county-by-county transportation information, including specific services available in each county, as well as contact information for the various agencies that manage transportation services in Florida.

The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA) provides demand response transportation services for people who, because of their disability, are unable to independently use the regular, accessible PSTA buses.

The Pinellas County Transportation Disadvantaged (TD) Program is a state-funded program that provides reduced cost transportation throughout the county to residents who qualify as “Transportation Disadvantaged.”

The Center for Applied Special Technology, CAST, is a nonprofit research organization dedicated to improving education through Universal Design for Learning (UDL).

This website allows college-bound students to create an account to map out their plan to go to college and explore careers.

This website helps educators assist their students in planning for the future, relating to college and career plans.

This website is divided into three sections: My Place, where students learn how to use their strengths, learning style and interests to set goals for college; Campus Life, where students can find out what to expect in college and what professors will expect from them; and Planning for College, where students learn what you can do now to prepare for and apply to college.

This module serves to help faculty and staff understand and help students determine and use, supports or accommodations to participate in the course.

This session will provide participants with tips and tools on how to achieve their dreams! Participants will learn how to put a budget together and tips on how to stick with it as well as the different types of financial institution.

This session gives parents with secondary students an inside look at the vast differences between secondary and post-secondary school experiences.

This handbook from PACER’s Family Advocacy and Support Training Project (FAST) provides ten tools and strategies that parents can use to help their children with disabilities safely navigate puberty and adolescence.

This handbook is a parent’s guide to the On Campus Transition Residential Program option for students with intellectual disabilities attending the University of North Florida.

The purpose of this presentation is to provide a basic overview on the 3 most popular social media tools available in the market, identify some of the do’s and don’ts if joining any of these sites, and providing the audience with case scenarios in order to identify some of the dangers that can come along with the use of social media today.

This Kindle book is intended for families with a young person headed for an inclusive college program. Each of the five strategies presented is supported by several Power Plays–baby steps in the right direction as your son or daughter with developmental delays gets ready for one of the new inclusive programs offered on more and more college and university campuses.

This module provides students with disabilities basic knowledge of self-advocacy skills needed to be successful in a college setting.

Self-Advocacy Online is a content rich, accessible online educational and networking tool and includes multi-media lessons on a variety of topics such as living self-determined, healthy, contributing lives in their communities;. a story wall of videos of self-advocates sharing their stories; and a national listing of self-advocacy groups to connected people with I/DD both locally and nationally.

This list provides several great resources on self-determination

This presentation will provide information on self-determination and one student’s story of putting it into action.

This Department of Transportation link provides contact information for each county in Florida.

Wayfinder 3 App is an accessible travel support system (application) for individuals with cognitive support needs (compatible with all devices), by Ablelinktech.  Ablelinktech  is a technology company that provides remote support applications for individuals.  For more information, email [email protected].

A webinar about how technology can assist individuals with IDD in using public transportation, and how technology in the home can assist with independent living.

Amanda shows viewers a typical day at Inclusive Education Services at UCF.

INTELLIGENT LIVES is an award-winning documentary following three young adults with intellectual disabilities: Micah, Naieer and Naomie, who, with the support of family, educators and colleagues, work toward a future marked with increased inclusion and independence. Their lives challenge staid notions of intelligence as they navigate high school, college and the workforce.  It is a film of possibility, normalcy, and dignity. 

Exploring My Decision-Making Options (nd) is an 8-page document developed by Florida WINGS ( Florida’s Working Interdisciplinary Network of Guardianship Stakeholders) to inform individuals with disabilities and their families of 14 options available to support this population (and others) in making, receiving support to make informed decisions, as well as the option to make decisions for another person when necessary.