Chapter 2: Education

Section 7: Transition Services

Dale Rogers Training Center

2501 N. Utah
Oklahoma City, OK 73107

405-946-4489 Voice
405-943-9710 Fax

dalerogers@drtc.org
www.drtc.org

School-to-Work Transition program for high school juniors and seniors.

Lighthouse Transitional Center, Inc.

14625 N.E. 23rd St.
Choctaw, OK 73020

405-390-6223 Voice
405-737-8871 Fax

lhsetc@aol.com
lighthousetc.org

Transitional services for young adults with autism and other developmental disabilities. Emphasis on development of skills in adaptive behavior, independent living, social-emotional behavior and verbal and non-verbal communication. Provides training and practice for participation in the community and achieving each individual's potential for self-sufficiency. Individual assessments are provided and transition plans developed. Day and after school programs available.

Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services (DRS) - Transition School-to-Work Program

2401 N.W. 23rd St., Ste. 59
Oklahoma City, OK 73107

580-436-2430 Visual Services Statewide
405-522-6525 Vocational Rehab OKC Area

www.okrehab.org/students.html#3

The Transition School-to-Work Program helps students with disabilities who are eligible for vocational rehabilitation services to prepare for employment and life after high school. Services available through Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and Division of Visual Services counselors assigned to each high school include:

Vocational counseling and guidance assists teachers, parents and students in developing appropriate career goals.
Vocational assessment and evaluation helps determine students' employment-related strengths.
Work study provides job readiness skills, work experience and high school credits.
Work site learning, arranged through "cooperative agreements" with schools, provides minimum-wage work in the community or at school, job readiness skills, work experience and high school credits.
Work adjustment training is purchased from community-based facilities.
On-the-job training is arranged in the community for students in the second semester of their senior year with permanent employment as a goal.
Supported employment helps students in the second semester of their senior year transition into permanent employment.
Job development and placement specialists help students make job searches more successful.

Vocational Rehabilitation Services in the Oklahoma City area email ljgameson@drs.state.ok.us, Tulsa area email mbaker@drs.state.ok.us and other state offices email reames@drs.state.ok.us. Visual Services statewide email sghawkins@drs.state.ok.us

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07/09/2008