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Obtaining Vocational Rehabilitation Services as a College-Bound Student

Posted on April 25, 2023 - 7:06 am by Alicia Wolfe

Group of students working and talking while seated at a table

Editor’s note: Are you a student who is blind or low vision and preparing for college? Watch APH ConnectCenter’s College Conversations: Communicating Your Needs with Vocational Rehabilitation to hear about obtaining VR services. Additionally, learn more about VR services as a college-bound student by working through the following lesson from our Transition to College: Program […]

Five Tips for Creating Individualized Transition and Employment Goals

Posted on April 18, 2023 - 10:30 am by Joe Strechay

Editor’s note: Do you work with transition-age youth who are blind or low vision? Watch The National Transition Conversation: 2023 APH CareerConnect Transition & Employment Resource Round Up. Read on to learn about supporting adults and students as they transition to higher education or employment. The following content has been edited as of April 2023. […]

APH Hive: Equipping Children who Have Multiple Disabilities with Pre-Employment Skills

Posted on March 7, 2023 - 8:59 am by Amy Campbell

A teen sits in a wheelchair and explores a white flower. Text: Career Readiness for Students with Multiple Impairments; Erika Fundeius and Stacey Chambers; APH HIVE

Is your child who is blind or low vision with additional disabilities preparing for a lifetime of meaningful employment? While transition and career readiness are mandated in your child’s IEP by age 16, career readiness has its place in your child’s educational programming from day one of entering school. But what does career readiness look […]

Career Conversations: One Year of Interviewing Professionals who are Blind or Low Vision

Posted on January 9, 2023 - 12:52 pm by admin

Sillouhettes of different people in different colors.

What if I told you there’s a place you can listen to individuals who are blind or low vision share about their current employment and how they prepared for it? There, you can ask your pressing questions—how did they know the career field is what they wanted to pursue; how did they navigate disclosing blindness/ […]

Cassandra McNabb-McKinney: Working as an Embalmer

Posted on October 21, 2022 - 12:00 am by Amy Lynn Smith

A white woman with green eyes and brown hair that falls just past her shoulders, wearing a red top with a floral pattern.

Being an embalmer and funeral director isn’t on the list of many people’s career choices. In fact, it’s often a trade handed down through generations of a family. But for Cassandra McNabb-McKinney, it’s work she felt called to do, both by her own experience and her faith. When she was 16 years old, there was […]

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