A website created for families who want to know more about the assessment process!

Life After High School:  

Vocational Rehabilitation

Exceptional Student Education for Vocational Rehabilitation: 278-7150, ext. 160 covers the following schools:

Cape Coral High

Ft. Myers High

Ft. Myers High Edison Center

Mariner High

North High

Royal Palm

Exceptional Student Education for Vocational Rehabilitation: 278-7150, ext. 108

ALC

Buckingham Center

Cypress Lake High

Estero High

LAMP

Lehigh Senior High

Riverdale High

Edison Community College

489-9427

Standard Diploma Only

Florida Gulf Coast University

590-7903

Group presentations preferred for college bound candidates.  Standard Diploma Only.

Lee County Support:  

The School District of Lee County

2523 Market Street

Fort Myers, Fl  33901-3911

 Special Education Department

Transition Services:  337-8616

Testing within the school district of Lee County vary from one school to another.  The Brigance Employability Skills test is available at all high schools.  Another performance test that can be used is the Rating Scale of Functional Independence for High Schools (grades 9-12) which includes the following 10 performance expectations.

1.  Child expresses effectively in print

2.  Completes tasks relying on the interpretation and use of oral, print, or numeric information.

3.  Interact appropriately within the course of daily social, vocational, and community living.

4.   Manage personal, career, and other life decisions.

5. Respond effectively to potentially harmful situations involving themselves and others.

6.  Access and use community resources and services as needed to meet daily needs.

7. Travel safely beyond community.

8. Complete routine personal care and health           activities.

9.  Manage immediate and long-term responsibilities associated with task completion.

10.  Manage unstructured time.

In addition, to the assessments  mentioned, much of the testing that takes place is curriculum based and through teacher observation of skills demonstrated. Procedures are continually upgraded to provide the best methods of assessing your child's school to work experience. 

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This website was developed collaboratively during the summer session of  June/July 2000, as a technology project by graduate students in EEX 6222: Assessment and Dr. Marcia Greene, Associate Professor and Bill Halverson, Technology Instructor/Webmaster, Florida Gulf Coast University, College of Education.   Comments/Feedback??? Email us directly or use the Feedback option at the top of the page.  We hope you have enjoyed this website! 

Last modified: July 05, 2000