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- This tuition-based program will provide students with the support and
guidance necessary to navigate through this inclusion and emergent
developmentally appropriate program within the college campus community.
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- Coastal Carolina University LIFETM program will enable
students with intellectual disabilities the educational and social
development opportunity to address four key primary areas:
- academic enrichment,
- socialization,
- independent living skills, and
- competitive or supported employment.
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- Developmental Core Courses
- Work Experience
- Career Exploration Apprenticeship
- Internships
- on-campus and off-campus – job exploration and shadowing
- LIFETM Portfolio
- Compilation of documentation that shows inclusive representation of
student’s development, growth, and completion of program
- Certificate Program
- On-going Assessment and Guidance each semester with a Personal
Development Plan
- Career interests and vocational skills
- Academic development
- Social development
- Independent living
- Peer Mentors
- Academic Mentors
- Social Mentors
- Residential Mentors
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- Demonstrate the knowledge, strategies, and techniques needed to read at
a functional level
- Demonstrate basic mathematical skills and ability to use a calculator
- Agree to actively participate in ongoing assessments (such as cognitive,
independent living skills, and others)
- Demonstrate the potential and desire to be successfully employed
- Must be between 18-24 years old
- Have an intellectual disability (as defined by AAIDD)
- Must have not met the requirements for and/or received a state high
school diploma or its equivalent
- Independently exhibits emotional stability, maturity, interest and
motivation to participate in and pursue additional educational,
employment, and life experiences through a post-secondary program
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Notes
