Heather Holmes and Jacob Pfau-Martinez
www.pepnet.org
Our mission: To increase the educational, career and lifetime choices available to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. Our Goal: To improve postsecondary outcomes for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, including those with cooccurring disabilities.
Reality Check #1 Transition is NOT a service added to the end of a student’s high school career. The school-to-work transition is not a single point in time but part of the lifelong process of individual development. (Szymanski, 1993)
Transition is NOT the responsibility of ONE entity. A coordinated set of activities for a student, designed within an outcome-oriented process, which promotes movement from school to post-school activities, including post-secondary education, vocational training, integrated employment, continuing and adult education, adult services, independent living, or community participation. (Levinson, Ferchalk, & Seifert, 2004)
â—? High School Students â—? Recent Graduates
Designed for students who are deaf and hard of hearing. More than 100 ASL videos, which include English narration and captions, support concepts fundamental to selfdetermination.
Navigation is simple and intuitive. Pepnet 2 conducted several rounds of beta testing with high school students to be sure they were able to navigate through Map It easily.
There are a total of four verification forms :
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Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Final
These verification forms can be submitted to teachers, job coaches, or other team members to document completion.
Student answers to every activity, assessment, and interaction are saved in an online portfolio as a PDF file. This makes it easy to share their work with teachers, parents, or someone else on their team.
Twelve young-adult role models lead this interactive and unique online training.
The role models use different modes of communication and have diverse transition goals that include: • plans for employment, • training programs,
• postsecondary education options.
These role models were chosen to represent the diversity among deaf and hard of hearing students across the country.
Educator’s Guide includes: • Checklist of activities in Map It supporting Indicator 13 • List of videos, interactions, assessments, and activities and where they appear in the training Map It Map: A quick overview of the key features and content in the training
http://www.pepnet.org/training/mapit
pepnet 2 is funded by the Research to Practice Division, Office of Special Education Programs and the US Department of Education via Cooperative Agreement #H326D110003
www.pepnet.org