IDEA & Legal Basics
According to IDEA, transition services must be included in the IEP no later than this age.
What is 16
This type of assessment helps students identify their strengths, needs, and preferences for the future.
What is a transition assessment?
These are 5 skill areas that VR counselors provide to students before they graduate.
What are Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS)?
This is the act of speaking up for oneself and making one's own decisions.
What is Self-Advocacy?
This is the federal program that provides monthly income for people with disabilities who have limited income.
What is Supplemental Security Income (SSI)?
This federal act requires employers and public facilities to make "reasonable accommodations" for people with disabilities.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
Transition planning is often divided into these three core areas: Working, Learning, and this.
What is Living (or Community Participation)?
This is the term for when a student explores a job site and talks to a professional to learn about a career.
What is a job shadow or informational interview?
Developing these skills is crucial for students to lead their own IEP meetings
What are self-determination skills?
This term refers to managing money, paying bills, and budgeting.
What is Financial Literacy?
Transition services are defined as a coordinated set of activities that promote movement from school to these, including post-secondary education and employment.
What are post-school activities?
This type of planning focuses on the student's vision for their life, rather than just filling out a form.
What is Person-Centered Planning?
These types of skills, including teamwork, communication, and punctuality, are often more important to employers than hard skills.
What are Soft Skills?
This document, which lists a student's disability and required accommodations, is no longer provided automatically in college.
What is an IEP (or disability documentation)?
This is the ability to navigate the community, including using public transportation.
What are community participation/mobility skills?
This law, reauthorized in 2014, requires vocational rehabilitation to provide Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS).
What is the Workforce Innovation and Opportunities Act (WIOA)?
These are specific, measurable goals that a student plans to achieve after high school, which must be updated annually.
What are Post-Secondary Goals?
This practice involves modifying a job description to fit the unique skills of a person with a disability.
What is Customized Employment?
This term refers to knowing your own strengths, weaknesses, and needs
What is Self-Awareness?
This type of planning is necessary if a student cannot make their own legal decisions at age 18.
What is Supported Decision-Making (or Guardianship)?
Under IDEA, this individual is considered the most critical and central member of the transition team.
Who is the student?
Research suggests that this type of work experience during high school is a strong predictor of employment after graduation.
What is paid work experience?
This is the process of informing an employer that you have a disability and may need accommodations.
What is Disclosure?
To receive services in college, a student must contact this office, rather than relying on the high school to send records.
What is the Disability Resource/Accessibility Center?
This is the process of transferring health care management from pediatricians to adult providers.
What is Health Care Transition?