Resources

Special Education Services

Secondary Transition



Topic
What's New?
  • Save the Date - Fifth Annual Illinois Statewide Transition Conference - November 9 & 10, 2009 PDF File
  • 2009 PEATC Transition Webinar Series

    PEATC and VCU RRTC bring six 30 minute webinars; Next Steps: Transition for students with disabilities. This is a FREE opportunity for students, families, educators, adult service providers and others interested in Transition. FREE, but registration is required.
    Please visit PEATC to register.
  • Proyecto Visión

    This bilingual web site is a project to connect Latinos with disabilities to employment opportunities. It provides information on education, employment, and independent living resources and lists hundreds of job, scholarship, internship, grant, award, and other educational opportunities of interest to Latinos and students with disabilities
Topic Indicator 13 - Tools and Resources for the Secondary Transition Plan

Including: information regarding district requirements for Indicator 13, tools and resouces for FACTS data collection, district tools such as the Illinois Indicator 13 checklist, a Transition Practices Self-Asessment, a comprehensive powerpoint slide show on building a better IEP, a transition plan sample, and links to resources from the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center.

Topic Indicator 14 - Tools and Resources for Collecting and Using Post-School Outcome Data

Including: district cycle, suggestions for post-school outcomes (Ind. 14) data collection, sample district letter to former student, post-school survey interview questions and interviewer script, strategies for increasing response rates and advise from the field.

Topic Transition Outreach Training for Adult Living (TOTAL) Project

In October 2002 The US Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services (OSERS) awarded the Illinois State Board of Education an IDEA Model Outreach grant to implement a multi-tiered statewide training and technical assistance package on research based best practices in secondary transition. The key focus of TOTAL was to systematically build capacity to provide state-of-the-art transition services throughout Illinois. Though the Project period ended in March 2007, the tools and resources developed under the Project are supported by the Illinois State Board of Education and continue to be accessed and implemented in school districts and special education cooperatives across the state.

The link below provides additional information about the TOTAL training modules and access to the TOTAL module videos, the power point slides, tools and resources.

Topic Descriptions of Federally-Supported Projects and Centers That Focus On Youth Transition

The Federal Interagency Partners in Transition Workgroup has developed a directory of federally funded projects and centers focusing on youth transition. The directory includes fifteen descriptions, detailing the name of the project or center, the funding agency, and the target audience. The directory also contains a brief description of each center's purpose, the services they provide, and links to center websites and publications. It is important to note that the document is not exhaustive of all transition services extended through federal, state, or local entities.