Career exploration websites
- Accommodations and the job: DOL
- United States Department of Labor: Link
- Career cluster inventory: iseek careers
- Explore career clusters you can pursue in high school: Achieve Texas
- Heath Resource Center at the National Youth Transitions Center: HEATH
- O'Net Interest Profiler: My Next Move
- Other ONet interest inventory options: Link
- Texas Career Check, a tool to explolre careers and education options in Texas: Link
- Texas site where students can explore the costs of living: Reality Check
- Texas Workforce Solutions' employment exploration document: HS-HG
Curriculum, activities and lessons
- A unique online program that utilizes iTunes University to teach a 17 unit course. E-Mentoring Program (EMP)
- Comprehensive online text book and lesson guide for gaining work skill knowledge with 4 units and 16 chapters: Entering the World of Work
- Comprehensive online text book and lesson guide for exploring career options with 5 units and 16 chapters: Exploring Careers
- Eight unit lesson manual for teaching about: Disability Disclosure
- Financial education lessons (7 activities) designed for elementary students (links will download files): Student Workbook Teacher Guide
- Nineteen minute video with discussion guide created by the Texas Council of Developmental Disabilities: The Next Step
- Series of links to helpful webpages that can be used for guided lessons (9 lessons): DO-IT
- Soft skills training created by the Department of Education (30 lessons): Skills to Pay the Bills
- Texas Workforce Solutions' career lessons workbook: When I Grow Up
- Web design curriculum for youth with disabilities (8 units): Web Design and Development I
- Work and social skills lessons for students with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (10 lessons): WoW
See also "Self-Advocacy and Self-Determination Education Resources"
Agency Help
Texas Workforce Commission provides employment training, support, and placement for everyone including people with mild disabilities: