Acknowledgements

Prologue

Part One: Students with Significant Disabilities in Postsecondary Education

Chapter One
"A Life Worth Living": Postsecondary Education and Students with Significant Disabilities

Chapter Two
What's Transition Got to Do with Postsecondary Education?

Chapter Three
Addressing the Elephant in the Lecture Hall: Inclusion and Postsecondary Program Options

Part Two: Program Profiles

Chapter Four
More about Options

Chapter Five
Storming the Ivory Tower: College-Based Transition Program--Buffalo State College

Chapter Six
A Matter of Degree: The Venture Program at Bellevue College and ReThink Higher Education’s Passport Program

Chapter Seven
Taking Care of Business: The Occupational Training Program, Eastern New Mexico University

Chapter Eight
Five Hundred Graduates Strong: The Threshold Program, Lesley University

Chapter Nine
Learning to Take Ownership: The College Internship Program at the Berkshire Center

Chapter Ten
Sharing the Gift of Music: The Berkshire Hills Music Academy

Chapter Eleven
Becoming Part of a Greater World: Vista Vocational Program and Chapel Haven R.E.A.C.H. Program

Chapter Twelve
"Energy Is Anything That Causes a Change": The Career and Community Studies Program at The College of New Jersey

Chapter Thirteen
A Spectrum of Support: College Options for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Chapter Fourteen
Working without a Net: Students with SD Attending College on Their Own

Part Three: Making It So--Advice for Students, Their Parents, and Secondary Education Professionals

Chapter Fifteen
So You Want to Go to College? Advice to Students

Chapter Sixteen
Touching the Future: The Secondary Teacher's Role In Facilitating PSE

Chapter Seventeen
Time to Face the Music: Parents' Roles in Building Competence for PSE

Chapter Eighteen
The Buck Stops Here: The Fine Art of Financing

Chapter Nineteen
The Nuts and Bolts of College Admissions: How to Start

Chapter Twenty
And They’re Off! Supporting Your Student During the College Years

Epilogue
Removing the Stone

References and Recommended Reading

Resources

Appendix A
Advice for Students with Disabilities about College Accommondations

Appendix B
Advice to Students with Acquired Brain Injury

Glossary

Index