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Introduction & Acknowledgements
When it comes to advising students with disabilities, there are a number of questions that frequently arise for guidance counsellors:
- Do they have enough knowledge about disability?
- Will students with disabilities face particular difficulties once they leave school?
- Are there specific implications for career choice arising from a student's disability?
The good news however, is that guidance counsellors do not need to be trained experts in the field of disability in order to achieve positive results. In fact, most students with disabilities can manage quite well. However, they do need to take a common sense approach when exploring individual student need, and they do need to know where to go for additional information if necessary.
One of the key objectives of
Able 4 College has been to provide information to guidance counsellors working within second level schools, as well as to teachers, parents and students with disabilities themselves.
Able 4 College stemmed from a highly successful three-year partnership project between Trinity College Dublin and the Institute of Technology Tallaght funded by the HEA under their Strategic Initiative Scheme. The aim of this project has been to improve the retention of students with disabilities at third level.
The project would like to acknowledge the work of Claire Byrne, who produced the material, together with those who contributed to the project including Jim Jordan, Sean Gannon, Declan Treanor, Vincent Lennon, Maggie Ryan, Marie Kielty, Ann Heelan, Joanne Mc Carthy, John O' Dowd, Margaret Keating and Tom Farrell.
Sincere thanks to AHEAD for hosting this information at their website and for kindly agreeing to maintain and update it in the years to come.
Dec 2005
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