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Transition Planning for Students with Disabilities: What Educators and Service Providers Can Do
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Bakken, Jeffrey P.; Obiakor, Festus E. – Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd, 2008
The need for transition services for students with exceptionalities is apparent and critical for their success after high school. It is essential for school professionals, parents, and students to work collaboratively and consultively to determine each student's future goals and develop an effective plan to meet those goals successively. This book…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Individualized Transition Plans, Independent Living, Cooperative Planning
Transition Issues Related to Students with Visual Disabilities. PRO-ED Series on Transition.
Erin, Jane N.; Wolffe, Karen E. – 1999
Part of a series that provides practical resources to transition personnel on topics essential to the process of preparing individuals with disabilities for adulthood, this manual focuses on transition issues related to students with visual impairments. Chapter 1 discusses the nature of visual impairment and reactions to visual impairment. Chapter…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Education, Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential
Transition: Facilitating the Postschool Adjustment of Students with Disabilities.
Levinson, Edward M. – 1998
This book focuses on transition--the facilitation of the postsecondary adjustment of students, particularly those with disabilities, to work, leisure, and independent functioning in the community. Chapter 1 reviews definitions of transition, highlights a transdisciplinary transition model, and reviews federal legislation to facilitate transition.…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning
Building School-to-Work Programs. Strategies for Youth with Special Needs.
Benz, Michael R.; Lindstrom, Lauren E. – 1997
Designed for practitioners, this book provides ideas and strategies for designing, developing, and implementing the Youth Transition Program (YTP) for students with disabilities and special needs in Oregon. Chapter 1 describes the following: background and need for collaborative school-to-work (STW) programs; STW program purposes and components,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Career Choice, Career Education, Cooperative Planning
The New Poverty: Homeless Families in America.
Nunez, Ralph da Costa – 1996
This book discusses homeless families in the United States and advocates the efforts of residential educational and employment training centers--American Family Inns--which provide comprehensive services education, job training, and parenting and life skills to address the poverty-related conditions that contribute to homelessness. Chapters of the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Change Strategies, Children
Transition Education and Services for Adolescents with Disabilities. Third Edition.
Sitlington, Patricia L.; Clark, Gary M.; Kolstoe, Oliver P. – 2000
This book provides a history and overview of transitional services and educational programs provided for high school students with disabilities and proposes a new model of comprehensive transition education and services. The book is organized in 12 chapters: (1) "Secondary Special Education in Perspective"; (2) "Transition Education and Services…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Attitudes toward Disabilities, Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Community Resources