Transition Services
What Is Secondary Transition?
Transition planning begins no later than age 14, in middle school or early high school, as students explore what they want their post-school outcomes to be through career awareness exploration activities. It continues through high school as instruction and community experiences support these outcomes.
Transition planning involves a partnership between the student, the family, school-age services and program providers, post-secondary services and program providers, and local community members. Effective transition involves purposeful planning among all these entities. It entails recognizing the student’s current strengths, interests, preferences, and needs, and then identifying what services and supports he or she will need to achieve future success.
Services in the following areas:
Trainings-
- What is Transition?
- Writing Transition IEPs
- Writing Standards Aligned Measurable Goals for Secondary IEPs
- Inclusive Practices for Students Ages 14 to 21
- Effective Practices in Secondary Transition
- Effective Practices in Secondary Transition- Health Care
- Communities of Practice
- PA Exit/Post-School Outcomes Surveys
- Indicator #13
- Self Advocacy for Youth in Transition
- Job Coaching/Job Development
- Community Based Instruction
- On-the-Job Placements
- Child Labor Laws
- Parent Engagement
- YES Academy
Consultations-
- School District Special Education Transition Teachers
- BCCTC Program Instructors
- Transition Committee Meetings
- Beaver County Transition Coordinating Council
- Monthly Transition Coordinators Meetings
- Transitional Options/IEP Meetings
- Partnering with Community Agencies
- Bender Leadership Academy
- PA Youth Leadership Network
Resources-
- Local Task Force Newsletter
- Bully Buzz
- School District Anti-Bully Teams
- National Disability Mentoring Day