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Email Essentials

Constructing a Professional Email

In college, you’ll have to send professional emails. Whether it means emailing a resume to a potential employer or a clarifying question to a professor, it’s important to know how to format your message, what to do, and what not to do. Here are some types of individuals you may send professional emails to: Potential…

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After high school, the rules change

The following charts describe general differences in various areas between public high school and postsecondary education. It has been reprinted with permission from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, and primary authors Ann Kallio and Laura Owens, Ph.D.

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So You’re Heading Off to College: Tips and Resources

Lauren Agoratus M.A. Counseling is the parent of a child with multiple disabilities.  She is the State Coordinator of Family Voices NJ, the national network that “works to keep families at the center of children’s health care.”  She also serves as the Central/Southern Coordinator for the NJ Family-to-Family Health Information Center.  These are both housed…

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Can Speech-challenged Students Get an Appropriate Education?

This column is reprinted with permission from Emma’s Hope Book, a blog written by a teenager with autism and, occasionally, her parents. What would you do if the whimper in your heart could not find the right words to speak? What if you couldn’t control the things you felt compelled to say, even if you…

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