Second Wave on Facebook

The Second Wave Facebook page describes itself as follows:

Second Wave – USA. This page is for support and sharing information for families and individuals with disabilities ages 14 – 26 years of age. This group will address transition, community access, secondary education, supports and services, etc.

Loyalist College Ponders Inclusive Postsecondary Ed

The Inclusive Post Secondary Education Committee of Hastings and Prince Edward has been formed in Ontario to develop programs in the Belleville area. They are working with Loyalist College to develop a program and brought Bruce Uditsky (Alberta Association for Community Living) and Anne Hughson (University of Calgary) out from Alberta earlier this month to discuss program development. Uditsky and Hughson each have more than two decades of experience in developing Inclusive Postsecondary Education programs and there are currently programs in 17 Alberta Colleges and Universities. The Belleville Intellingencer published an article on the work to develop a program there on May 22nd.

Friendship III: Emily & Alethea

This is a another video that was created by Lorna Sutherland as part of a Master’s degree thesis at the University of Alberta that studied friendships between students with and without disabilities in inclusive postsecondary education. This video describes the friendship between Emily, a student with a physical disability, and Alethea, another student.

Producer: Lorna Sutherland

Camera: Rick Gustavsen

Editor: Katrina Beatty

Friendship II: Alex & Jollean

Here is another short friendship video produced by Lorna Sutherland. This video is about the friendship between Alex and Jollean that developed through a high school program

Friendship I: Shani & Aimee

This video was created by Lorna Sutherland as part of a Master’s degree thesis at the University of Alberta that studied friendships between students with and without disabilities in inclusive postsecondary education.

Budget 2010 Alberta

9 February 2010 – Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Finance Minister Ted Morton released Alberta’s budget for the coming year today. According to the Edmonton Journal, the budget included cuts to 15 ministries but included a substantial rise to health spending and some increased spending in education. Funding for PDD (Persons with Developmental Disabilities) programs was unchanged from the previous year.

On the positive side, this news could have been worse.

One Week on the World Wide Web

8 February 2010 At 2PM today, The Inclusive Post-Secondary Education Blog celebrates its 1 week birthday. Here is a summary of the week so far.

There were 2,927 visits to pages on the site.

February 3rd was our busiest day with

U.S. News & World Report on IPSE

13 February 2009 Here is an interesting story in the mainstream media on college students with developmental and intellectual disabilities. What do you think? Does this story to a good job of covering the issue? The story by Jessica Calefati in U.S. News and World Report is titled College Is Possible for Students With Intellectual Disabilities. Here is a short quote from the story:

College of Charleston Announces New IPSE Program

4 February 2010 – Charleston, SC, USA A joint press release form the College of Charleston and the National Down Syndrome Society today announced that the College will open an Inclusive Post-Secondary education program in fall 2010. The  R.E.A.C.H. (Realizing Educational and Career Hopes) will provide a four-year program for students with intellectual disabilities with funding from the state of South Carolina. According to the press release:

Great Literature Resource

Think College has some great resources for Inclusive Post-Secondary Education. One of them is their Literature database that provides access to a wealth of articles on IPSE. It is great resource! …. And if you have suggestions for other articles to add, you can suggest them to Cate Weir, who updates the site and whose e-mail address can be found when you go to the database site.