2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
6/21/2017 | 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM | Improve Employment Outcomes through College and Career Services | Battle Creek
Improve Employment Outcomes through College and Career Services
Community-based work experience and instruction are evidence-based practices that increase employment outcomes for students with disabilities. Find out how transition coordinators and teachers assist students gain internships using career discovery and transition assessments. Gain strategies for using evidence-based practices and predictors to increase employment. Finally, see how partnerships with HR and employers result in customized employment for students with ID. A digital video library, archived webinars and other resources will be shared and discussed.
- Discuss evidence based practices and predictors to increase internships and customized employment through college and career transition services.
- Gain access to resources for transition coordinators, employment specialists and job coaches on topics including career discovery, assessment practices, and digital video libraries.
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Margo Izzo
(), Ohio State University Nisonger Center, margo.izzo@osumc.edu;
Dr. Margo Izzo is Program Director of Transition Services at the Nisonger Center, a University Center of Excellence on Disabilities at the Ohio State University. With 29 years experience in the fields of special education and developmental disabilities, Dr. Izzo has expertise in grants management, program evaluation, curriculum development, and advocacy for individuals with exceptionalities. She is Principal Investigator of numerous federally funded grants designed to improve academic outcomes of students with disabilities at both the secondary and postsecondary levels. Dr. Izzo maintains a steady regimen of research on characteristics of students with hidden disabilities and development and evaluation of academic, technology-based curricula designed to improve their performance in secondary education and college. Among many awards, she is the recipient of the Mary E. Switzer Fellowship from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. Dr. Izzo is Past President of the Division of Career Development and Transition (DCDT) within the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC).
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