The arrangement is part of a program that allows students to sample different jobs in the community during the transitional time between high school and entering the working world. Students work alongside their job coaches, who also are their high school teachers. This program allows regular education students to be peer buddies to students with disabilities in their school. This facilitates the inclusion of students with disabilities in regular classrooms and in social activities. Studies show that this relationship bridges the gap socially and academically and proves to be beneficial to students with and without disabilities and to teachers.
Students can participate in the peer buddy program and receive credit as an elective.
Visual disabilities research program of Anne Corn Professor Corn conducts research on the education of students with visual disabilities. She has concentrated on studies related to the use of low vision and optical devices and on studies related to the academic and nonacademic performance of high school students with visual disabilities. Dr. Corn also is interested in the impact of a visual disability on adult lifestyles.