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IDEAL Summer 2020

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IDEAL Summer 2020

Take a peek into what we have been up to this summer!

Jamming at Songs For Kids

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Jamming at Songs For Kids

Check out this short clip of IDEAl students jamming during their field trip to Song for Kids in Downtown Atlanta.

Breyan Singing at Songs For Kids

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Breyan Singing at Songs For Kids

Breyan Pettaway is one of the multi-talented students of the IDEAL Program. Check out this video to hear him sing while other IDEAl students accompany him during their field trip to Songs For Kids in Downtown Atlanta.

IDEAL Spring 2018

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IDEAL Spring 2018

A compilation of the semester, Spring 2018.

IDEAL Fall 2017 Slideshow

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IDEAL Fall 2017 Slideshow

Check out this slideshow of pictures and videos form IDEAL Fall 2017!

IDEAL Fall 2017

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IDEAL Fall 2017

The mission of IDEAL is to provide students with intellectual disabilities with educational opportunities, job-focused training, and access to resources and supports that lead to meaningful employment, greater independence, and a higher quality of life.

GCDD Advocacy Day Videos

Navigating the Capitol with GCDD

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Navigating the Capitol with GCDD

In this video, the IDEAL students take you on a tour of the Georgia State Capital and show you where to go and what to expect from GCDD's Advocacy Days. #GCDDadvocacyday

Advocating to Your Legislator: Five Easy Steps

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Advocating to Your Legislator: Five Easy Steps

In this video, the students of the IDEAL Program will teach you how to advocate to your legislator by following five easy steps. #GCDDadvocacyday

Career Panels

Video Game Development Career Panel

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Video Game Development Career Panel

Panelists include: Joe Cassavaugh - Puzzles by Joe - CEO, Designer, Engineer Zane Everett - IGDa Atlanta - Vice-Chair Dakota Ling - Primal-Screen - Senior Developer Matthew Wesdock - Mixabit LLC - Sound Designer, Owner Our moderator is Nadia, an IDEAL student with an interest in journalism. Throughout the year, IDEAL hosts career panels to help people gain insight into that panel’s industry. Due to COVID-19, we are taking this event to the virtual world and opening it up to all of you! Feel free to ask any questions in the live chat! IDEAL is a program at Georgia State University that helps students with mild intellectual disabilities pursue careers in creative media such as art, film, theatre and music. Since its start in 2016, IDEAL assists innovative students in developing their “voice” and aims to promote inclusivity on the Georgia State campus.

Mondays with Martha

Mondays with Martha: Episode 1

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Mondays with Martha: Episode 1

For our first episode of "Mondays with Martha", Martha chats with students from Georgia State University's IDEAL program, an inclusive postsecondary education (IPSE) program which provides young adults with disabilities the opportunity to attend college. Martha, students from the program, and a peer mentor discuss the value of IPSE programs on college campuses.

Mondays with Martha: Episode Two

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Mondays with Martha: Episode Two

For our second episode of "Mondays with Martha", Martha chats with Kurt Vogel, a powerful self-advocate and student at Georgia Tech's Excel program, about his experience with advocacy and the importance of using your voice to create change.

Mondays with Martha: Episode 3

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Mondays with Martha: Episode 3

During our third episode of "Mondays with Martha", Martha sits down with Charlie Miller, the Legislative Liaison for Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency (GVRA), to talk about Charlie's work with GVRA and his tips for building relationships with our lawmakers.

Mondays with Martha: Episode 5

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Mondays with Martha: Episode 5

During our fifth episode of "Mondays with Martha", Martha sits down with Parker Glick, the Outreach and Media Coordinator for the Statewide Independent Living Council of Georgia (SILCGA), to talk about the importance of independent living and what is being done in Georgia.

Mondays with Martha: Episode 4

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Mondays with Martha: Episode 4

During our fourth episode of "Mondays with Martha", Martha sits down with Dawn Alford, the Director of Public Policy for the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities, to talk about public policy and the current state of Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) here in Georgia.

Mondays with Martha: Episode 6

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Mondays with Martha: Episode 6

During our 6th episode, Martha sits down with Mark Crenshaw, the Director of Interdisciplinary Training at Georgia State University's Center for Leadership in Disability. Mark and Martha chat about the importance of Georgia's Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) Program and why we need our members of Congress to sign on as co-sponsors to the Autism CARES Act of 2019.

Mondays with Martha: Season 2 Episode 1

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Mondays with Martha: Season 2 Episode 1

In the first episode of Season 2 of Mondays with Martha, Martha Haythorn and Eric Jacobson come together to share memories of the late Dawn Alford, who passed away earlier this year.

Mondays with Martha, Season 2: Episode 2

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Mondays with Martha, Season 2: Episode 2

In this episode, Martha talks with Elizabeth Snarey from The Arc Georgia about Non-Emergency Medical Transportation.

IDEAL at GSU is committed to providing and promoting healthy and inclusive spaces for learning and employment that are tech-savvy, arts-based, and career-focused.

We prepare students with intellectual disabilities with job skills and employment-readiness information while providing access to university education, resources, and support that leads to higher levels of self-determination, meaningful employment, greater independence and a higher quality of life.

For more information please contact us.

ideal@gsu.edu

75 Piedmont Ave NE

Suite 906

Atlanta, GA 30303