$20.00
Price notes
One free copy to individuals with disabilities and family members. $20 (includes shipping) for professionals.
Listing last updated: 07-08-24
Pennsylvania Assisstive Technology Foundation
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Pennsylvania Assisstive Technology Foundation
Cents and Sensibility, a guide to money management and its accompanying website, www.studymoney.us, is a financial education book that is geared to youth transitioning into adulthood. It's target audiences are people with disabilities and their families. The goal for this project was to create a resource so that people with disabilities will have access to information so they can be more involved in their own financial future. The material is presented in an accessible format (e.g. Section 508 compliant, 5th grade reading level). Topics include wants and needs (and their fluid nature), income and expenses, money mapping, understanding credit, safe ways to save (e.g., ABLE accounts, Special Needs Trusts, protecting against identity theft, accessing assistive technology, and adult decision-making options. There are clear explanations about disability-related programs and links to those programs and resources. The book includes a Resource section that includes worksheets for money mapping. There is also a checklist of information ("Road to Independence") that students with disabilities should have gathered prior to graduation. This is a first-of-its kind comprehensive financial education book for people with disabilities.
Details
- Author
- Susan Tachau and Tracy Beck, in conjunction with Widener University's School of Business Administration
- Released
- 2016
- Format and Delivery
- Resource Type
- Target Audience
- Languages
- English
- Special Needs
- Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Learning Special Needs, Visual Special Needs
- Special Needs Note
- People of all disabilities can access this material -- and the material is relevant. The online version of the book as well as the website is Section 508 compliant. The reading level is at a 5th grade level. Pictures are included that represent people of all disabilities.
- Order Instructions
- Contact PATF for copies of the book. Otherwise, check out PATF's website for a free, on-line version of the book. The website, www.studymoney.us, is free.
- Contact Information
- 4846740506
