Project Name: That's
the Job I Want! Development, Evaluation, And Dissemination of a Consumer-Driven
Job Preference Program Using Motion Video CD ROM
Competition No.: 84.158v
TRI File No.: 484
Funding start: 1997
Funding end: 2000
Region:
3
Contact:
Dr.
Robert Morgan - Project Director
David Ellerd
Department
of Special Education and Rehabilitation
Utah
State University
2865 University Blvd.
Logan,
UT 84322-2865
435/797-3571
bmorgan@cc.usu.edu
& daellerd@coe.usu.edu
The purpose of this project is to produce a consumer-driven job choice and career
education program. This motion video CD ROM-based program will provide a means of a)
providing youth and their families with maximum information about jobs in a short period
of time; b) increasing consumer and family choice-making about jobs and careers; and c)
guiding subsequent transition planning, job sampling, and job placement.
Project Name: Self-Determined
Learning Model of Instruction: A National Outreach Project
Competition No.: 84.158Q
TRI File No.: 461
Funding start: 1997
Funding end: 2000
Region:
5
Contact:
Dr. Martin Agran - Project Co-Director
Department of Special Education
Utah State University
Logan, UT 84322-2685
801/797-2381
powder@cc.us.edu
Dr. Michael Wehmayer - Project
Co-Director
The Arc National Headquarters
500 East Border, Suite 300
Arlington, TX 76010
817/261-6003
mwehmeye@metronet.com
This project will replicate and nationally disseminate information about a Self-Determined
Learning Model of Instruction designed to enable students to solve problems and take
greater control of their transition and secondary-level content programs. Students
will learn to set transition goals, follow through with action plans, and evaluate and
adjust their task
performance as needed.
Project Name: Students
with Disabilities in Higher Education: A
model program
Competition No.: 84.078C
TRI File No.: 415
Funding start: 1995
Funding end: 1998
Region:
5
Contact:
Charles L. Salzberg & Sarah Rule - Co-Directors
Utah State University
Logan, UT 84322-2865
801/797-3234
salzberg@cc.usu.edu
The full participation of individuals with disabilities in the economic, political, and social life of the United States is a goal that has driven a great deal of activity over the last 25 or more years. Indeed, advocacy, major legislation such as PL 94-142, and its subsequent editions and reauthorizations and ADA are testimony to the fact that considerable progress has been made. However, individuals with disabilities remain underrepresented in higher education. This is especially true in university education that leads to four-year bachelor's degrees, which is the gateway to most professional, technical, and high-level business careers. Individuals with disabilities who are also members of underrepresented cultural, ethnic, and linguistic groups are even more severely underrepresented in university education. This project will develop a model program for students with disabilities and for students with disabilities who are also members of underrepresented groups in university education. There are five components proposed for this project: 1.) special recruitment programs to attract students with disabilities to USU and 2.) especially those who are members of underrepresented groups, 3.) an articulated network of on-campus support services for students with disabilities to enhance retention and graduation-including training and technical assistance to faculty in accommodation, 4.) a cooperative education, career exploration, and job placement support service to help students with disabilities find and obtain employment in their chosen fields, and finally, 5.) dissemination of information about the project to other institutions of higher education in such a way as to help interested colleges and universities replicate all or part of the program.
Updated 12/1/98
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