Welcome!

The first course in our series addresses the background, purpose, and application of Pre-Employment Transition Services for youth with disabilities.

Curriculum Designer & Instructor

Barb Schiedermayer, our curriculum designer and course author, holds a Master's degree in Rehabilitation Counseling and has over 30 years of experience in the field. Barb worked in private rehabilitation as an employment specialist. She then worked for Montana's Vocational Rehabilitation program as a VR counselor, Transitions Program Developer/Manager, Trainer, Regional Administrator, and Quality Control Officer. Concurrently, she worked as a curriculum developer and trainer for technical assistance centers and grant projects nationwide. Barb's passion for her work became personal when she and her husband adopted their daughter, who lives with a significant disability. For more on Barb's story, we invite you to listen in on the podcast A VR Professional and the Mother of a Child with a Disability.

Barb welcomes you to reach out with any questions or concerns regarding the courses.

Course Navigation

Navigating through the three modules within this course is easy.

• To move from one page to the next or back, click the Previous and Next links at the bottom of your course pages.
• To get a birds-eye view of the modules within each course, click the Modules link at the top left of the page.

This project is funded through a grant award from the US Rehabilitation Services Administration in Innovative Training (H263C190013). It was awarded to the West Virginia University Research Corporations, the faculty of the West Virginia University Department of Counseling and Learning Sciences, Clinical Rehabilitation, and Mental Health Counseling program; Reed College of Media; the University of West Georgia, and UWGLive Simulation Labs, featuring virtual avatars viaMursion