Transition_Planning_For_Special_Education_Students

Transition Planning For Special Education Students Growing up is not easy. It is even more complicated for young adults with disabilities. Far too many students with disabilities leave school lacking the academic, technical, and social skills necessary to find and/or maintain employment, and often the jobs they do find are low paying and offer no health benefits. Identifying the challenges students will face as adults, and preparing and assisting them to meet those demands successfully, requires careful transition planning beginning at the earliest age possible. Transition Services and the IEP The Individual Education Plan (IEP) for each student, beginning no later than age 16, must include a statement of needed transition services. Federal law permits the provision of transition services for some students at age 14 or younger, particularly for those at risk of dropping out of school before age 16, or when the provision of these services would be beneficial to any student with a disability and have a positive effect on employment and independent living outcomes. The decision to provide transition services to students younger than age 16 should be made by the IEP team. Broadly defined, transition is an all-inclusive process that focuses on improving a student's employment outcomes, housing options, and social iep, transition, student, planning, services, school, community, adult, service, process, activities, students, outcomes, team, skills, student's, needs, goals, education, information, should, providers, meeting, employment, desired, work, support, meetings, local, living, life, agencies, age, provide, participate, young