To: Parent, child, teacher or Transition Planner
From: Bruce Mardiney
Date: 2-2-2012
Subject: Transition Brief # 1: What exactly is Transition Planning
From: Bruce Mardiney
Date: 2-2-2012
Subject: Transition Brief # 1: What exactly is Transition Planning
Welcome. This the first of a series of briefs about Transition Planning, an important part of your schooling. I hope to educate & amuse as you make your way to adulthood.
Let us jump right in then:
What exactly is TRANSITION PLANNING?
It's planning for your transition from High School to Adult Life.
It is: (officially speaking)
a results-oriented coordinated set of activities
1. that includes plans for working, more schooling and/or other post high-school activities, ie "life"
2. that improves your academic & functional achievement, for "life "
3. that is based on your needs using your strengths, your preferences, your interests
4. that includes instruction, related services, community experiences, & every-day life skills training.
Every Student with an IEP (Individualized Education Plan) should have a Transition Plan started by age 14 in NYS.
You may start earlier, so I'll start this series with an example a bit younger, a 6th grader. But you can begin these tasks at any time and move through them as quickly as you wish.
My Links this week:
1. My first link is to this same material at TransitionPlanner.org. There are tabs there to a lot of information about essential transition tasks.
2. My second link is to See the US gov't updated IDEA guidelines re transition here . .
.3. And if you're having trouble getting to sleep, start on these 37 pages of breakdown of the IDEA as it applies to Transition Planning from the National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
4. And finally, I've chosen a link to A nice intro to Transition Planning from TransitionMap.org . . . .
There's a lot out there.
Next Post: Your Transition Team
Hope you all have a good week!
Bruce Mardiney MPS LCSW, Ulster BOCES Social Work
Center for Special & Alternative Education, PO Box 1176, Rt. 9W, Port Ewen NY 12466
(845) 339-8707 x 2356 fax (845) 339-8714 www.transitionplanner.org
"to develop independent lifelong learners" sm
"Not all those who wander are lost." JRR Tolkien
Let us jump right in then:
What exactly is TRANSITION PLANNING?
It's planning for your transition from High School to Adult Life.
It is: (officially speaking)
a results-oriented coordinated set of activities
1. that includes plans for working, more schooling and/or other post high-school activities, ie "life"
2. that improves your academic & functional achievement, for "life "
3. that is based on your needs using your strengths, your preferences, your interests
4. that includes instruction, related services, community experiences, & every-day life skills training.
Every Student with an IEP (Individualized Education Plan) should have a Transition Plan started by age 14 in NYS.
You may start earlier, so I'll start this series with an example a bit younger, a 6th grader. But you can begin these tasks at any time and move through them as quickly as you wish.
My Links this week:
1. My first link is to this same material at TransitionPlanner.org. There are tabs there to a lot of information about essential transition tasks.
2. My second link is to See the US gov't updated IDEA guidelines re transition here . .
.3. And if you're having trouble getting to sleep, start on these 37 pages of breakdown of the IDEA as it applies to Transition Planning from the National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
4. And finally, I've chosen a link to A nice intro to Transition Planning from TransitionMap.org . . . .
There's a lot out there.
Next Post: Your Transition Team
Hope you all have a good week!
Bruce Mardiney MPS LCSW, Ulster BOCES Social Work
Center for Special & Alternative Education, PO Box 1176, Rt. 9W, Port Ewen NY 12466
(845) 339-8707 x 2356 fax (845) 339-8714 www.transitionplanner.org
"to develop independent lifelong learners" sm
"Not all those who wander are lost." JRR Tolkien
