• I'm determined: A new project developed and sponsored by the Virginia Department of Education’s Training and Technical Assistance Centers, focused on Options Trading providing direct instruction, models, and opportunities to practice skills associated with self-determined behavior beginning at the elementary level and continuing through a student’s educational career. Visit I'm determined.
  
  
• Congrats to Kyle Wittenauer,19, Richmond, VA, one of three winners of the Marion Huber Learning Through Listening (LTL) Awards. Learn about Kyle, other winners and the awards.
  
  
• Special IMPACT newsletter devoted to news and information about postsecondary education for students with intellectual disabilities. Get it here.
  
  
• Learn Your Rights and Responsibilities: The U.S. Department of Education has updated its informative guide, Students with Disabilities Preparing for Postsecondary Education: Know Your Rights and Responsibilities. Get the updated guide here.
  
  
• Student Summary of Performance: Learn about this IDEA provision and how to use it to assist with transition to higher education. Get details here.
  
  
• Understanding Virginia Diploma Options: This guide helps parents and students understand the various high school diplomas now offered in Virginia. Download the FREE 9-page guide. (PDF)
  
  
• List of Colleges that Deemphasize the SAT and ACT in Admissions: Browse more than 700 accredited, bachelor degree-granting institutions which do not use the SAT I or ACT to make admissions decisions about substantial numbers of freshman applicants. Find it here.
  
  
• How do your skills measure up? Use this checklist of skills and behaviors to see how prepared you are to take on the challenges of college life.
  
  
• Guide to College for Students with Disabilities: This guide from Virginia’s Department of Education provides loads of information on preparing for college. Get it here. (PDF, 91 pgs)

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• Say YES to College :: May 24 - 26, 2011
  A college transition program for students with disabilities held on the campus of Old Dominion University in Norfolk. Limited to 40 students, register by April 1, 2011. Get the Say YES to College brochure here and begin registration here
  

• College Bound :: June 20 - June 24, 2011
  A campus experience for rising high school seniors with disabilities whose transition goal is a career that requires a college degree. Held on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. More details available here.
  
• Future Quest :: Saturday, November 19, 2011
  A biennial career and college forum for students with disabilities, parents and Momentum Options professionals held at George Mason University in Fairfax.
  
  
• VaCollegeQuest Webinar Archives :: View the archives of our Webinars:
  
  • SELF-ADVOCACY: Making It Happen in College and Beyond presented by Dr. Henry Reiff on September 17, 2008.
    
    
  • Postsecondary Educational Opportunities for Students with Intellectual Disabilities presented on October 29, 2008 by Stephanie Smith Lee and Dr. Heidi Graff.

"I led a life filled with the answers but had no way to get them out. Often my thoughts and ideas felt trapped. Sometimes I was so full of thoughts that needed to get out, I would blurt them out at the most inappropriate times and places. But I had a dream to go on to college and to go into a helping profession. So I had to figure it out on my own."

- Joy Cobb tells her story.