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Transition Essentials To Prepare Students for Adult Life

Transition Essentials To Prepare Students for Adult Life. 2007 Oklahoma Parent Conference. Jim Martin, Chen-Ya Juan, and Cathy Witten Zarrow Center University of Oklahoma Email: jemartin@ou.edu Phone: 405-325-8951. Agenda. Purpose of SPED Transition Education Big Ideas

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Transition Essentials To Prepare Students for Adult Life

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  1. Transition Essentials To Prepare Students for Adult Life 2007 Oklahoma Parent Conference Jim Martin, Chen-Ya Juan, and Cathy Witten Zarrow Center University of Oklahoma Email: jemartin@ou.edu Phone: 405-325-8951

  2. Agenda • Purpose of SPED • Transition Education Big Ideas • Seven Transition Education Steps

  3. Question? • What is the purpose of special education as defined by IDEA 2004?

  4. The Purpose of SPED . . . a free appropriate public education that emphasizes special education and related services designed to meet students’ unique needs and to prepare them for further education,employment, and independent living.

  5. “High school is a make-or-break time for kids with disabilities and, for too many, it’s a break time that’s why comprehensive transition planning must begin no later than age 14.” -Thomas Hehir Former Director US DOE, OSEP

  6. Transition Big Idea #1 Parents and educators and students need to decide: Where will the student live? Where will the student work? Where will the student receive job training? Where will the student receive education after high school?

  7. Transition Big Idea #2 Design the high school years to ensure that students have the opportunity and gain the skills needed to achieve post-school education, employment, and living goals.

  8. Transition Big Idea #3 To enable students to attain postschool goals, involve students in identifying and making linkages to post-school supports and programs before exiting the school system.

  9. Taxonomy for Transition Education Family Involvement Student-Focused Planning Program Structures Student Development Interagency Collaboration

  10. Transition Education Opportunities • Structure activities for students to think, talk, and plan about the future. • Jointly plan with educators, students, and family a course of study to make the high school experience directly relate to students’ dreams and goals for the future.

  11. Seven Transition Steps • Involve student in IEP Planning Process • Team completes a three-part transition assessment process. • Team Writes Present Level of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance • Team develops course of study • Team develops postschool linkages • Students work on attaining IEP and personal goals • Families and students build a Student-Directed Summary of Performance

  12. Step 1: Involve Student in IEP Planning Process • Teach students to become active participants in own IEP meeting • Learn terms and process • Students write script of what to say and when • Practice • Provide opportunities for students to speak at IEP meetings

  13. Teacher-Directed: What Percent Did These People Talk?

  14. Who Talked at IEP Meetings?

  15. Self-Directed IEP - 11 Lessons • Begin meeting by stating purpose. • Introduce everyone. • Review past goals and performance. • Ask for others’ feedback. • State your school and transition goals. • Ask questions if you do not understand. • Deal with differences in opinion. • State what support you will need. • Summarize your goals. • Close meeting by thanking everyone. • Work on IEP goals all year.

  16. Self-Directed IEP: What Percent Did These People Talk?

  17. Student-Directed: What % Did These People Talk?

  18. Answer This Question Who talked most about transition?

  19. The IEP Team consists of students, family, educators, and support staff. All -especially the student and family - must communicate to develop an effective and meaningful plan.

  20. IEP Team Purpose IEP teams needs to take along-term view and build an IEP to facilitate attainment of postschool goals. Begin With Postschool Goals Begin each IEP meeting with a discussion of postschool goals and involve the student and family as much as possible in this discussion.

  21. Self-Directed IEP Available From • Sopris West • 4093 Specialty Place • Longmont, CO 80504 • Phone: (303) 651-2829 • Fax: (888) 819-7767 • www.sopriswest.com

  22. Self-Advocacy Strategy Edge Enterprise P.O. Box 1304 Lawrence, KS 66044 A Student’s Guide NICCY P.O. Box 1492 Washington, DC 20013 www.nichcy.org/ NEXT S.T.E.P. PRO-Ed 8700 Shoal Creek Blvd Austin, TX 78757 www.proedinc.com More IEP Teaching Materials

  23. Step Two Team Completes a Three-Part Transition Assessment Process

  24. Three-Part Transition Assessment • 1. Self-Determination Skills • AIR SD Assessment (www.ou.edu/zarrow click on self-determination button) • 2. Transition Skills (Adaptive Behavior) • caseylifeskills.org • parent, student, support staff version • 3. Vocational Interests and Skills • - ON-Line Assessments (free!!!) • - Choose and Take Action vocational assessment • software JM

  25. Self-Determination Constructs • Self-awareness • Self-advocacy • Self-efficacy • Decision-making • Independent performance • Self-evaluation • Adjustment

  26. AIR Self-Determination Assessment • Parent Version • Teacher Version • Student Version • Available at • www.ou.edu/zarrow/sdetermination.html • Cost: free

  27. www.ou.edu/zarrow

  28. ChoiceMaker SD Assessment • Curriculum Referenced Assessment • Choosing Goals • Participating in IEP Meetings • Taking Action on Goals • Sopris West (search by author: Martin) • www.sopriswest.com • Cost: $12.95 for 25 copies

  29. Transition Assessments • Transition Planning Inventory (TPI) • ProEd, Austin Texas (www.proedinc.com) • Enderle-Severson Transition Rating Form • www.estr.net • Casey Life Skills • www.caseylifeskills.org

  30. Transition Planning Inventory • Home version • Teacher version • Student version • CD version speaks to students or parents and automatically scores

  31. Scales of Independent Behavior-R • SIB-R Scales (norm referenced) • Community and personal living skills • Social interaction and communication • Motor skills • Overall measure of independence • 14 adaptive behavior & 8 problem behavior areas • Available From • http://www.riverpub.com/ • Riverside Publishing • Cost: $248

  32. Casey Life Skills - Why Look Anywhere Else? • Web based and FREE!!! • Spanish or English, with numerous supplemental assessments • Youth and caregiver formats • Automatically scored and sent to you • Can obtain class summaries • Provides different levels of questions for students across functioning levels • www.caseylifeskills.org

  33. www.caseylifeskills.org JM

  34. Vocational Interest Assessment Part 3 of the 3-Part Transition Assessment Process

  35. Vocational Interests for High Achieving Students With Mild Disabilities • Group Interest Inventories • ACT Discover • ACT Explorer • U.S. Dept of Labor O*NET • www.onetcenter.org • Interest profiler, ability profiler

  36. Individualized Interest Inventories • Paper Individual Interest Inventories • Strong Interest Inventory • Self-Directed Search • On-Line Individual Interest Inventories • http://www.myfuture.com/toolbox/workinterest.html • www.ioscar.org • http://www.careerkey.org/cgi-bin/ck.pl?action=choices • www.careervoyages.com • www.careerclusters.org (download in pdf format)

  37. Exploration of Interest Results • Occupational Outlook Handbook • www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm • www.bls.gov/k12/index.htm • Job videos (English or Spanish) • Individuals & Job clusters • http://acinet.org/acinet/videos.asp?id=27,&nodeid=27 • www.careervoyages.com • Uses the above videos in an interactive format

  38. Career Awareness & Exploration • Watching • Video • http://acinet.org/acinet/videos.asp?id=27,&nodeid=27 • Provides numerous videos for students to watch • English or Spanish • Job cluster and skill categories • Horse Training • Coast Guard Assistant • Construction Workers • Teaching Assistants • Live in the Community • Doing • Short exploration periods • Long-term try-outs

  39. What If Some Can’t Read?

  40. Career Development Theory • Career Awareness • Career Exploration • Career Preparation • Beginning Career Need Exposure to Available Jobs

  41. WRIOT2: Wide Range Interest and Occupation Test 2 Available: www.proedinc.com Cost: appx $200 for entire package

  42. COPS-PIC • Non-Verbal Assessment of Occupational Interest • EDITS / P.O. Box 7234 / San Diego, CA 92167 • 800-416-1666 / 619-222-1666 / Fax 619-226-1666 • 25 copies for $50.90

  43. Functional Assessment Process • Over time • Repeated Measures Situational Assessment

  44. Situational Assessment • The most commonly used work evaluation approach in high school community based programs

  45. Char I Like vs Here Compares initial preferences to those experienced at a particular job site.

  46. Key: Determine Match Between What I Like and What’s At This Site

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