Transition Suggested Timelines
7th grade (12/13 yrs.) Meet with all students classified to explain:
 transition,
 adult outcomes,
 IEP participation
 Interest inventory
 Computer labs accessibility
 Assistive technology
*Best Practice: Encourage all students to attend IEP meetings regardless of age. Meeting
with parents re: Transition
8th grade (13/14 yrs) Direct instruction re:
 Student invitation
 IEP- student driven
 Student interests and preferences
 Modifications/accommodations
 Computer labs accessibility
 Assistive technology
*Best Practice: Curriculum course on self-determination
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Self Assessment
Laws (Rights/Responsibilities)
Making Action Plans (Futures Planning)
Career Goals
Getting Support (How to ask for help)
Getting Along
Citizenship
*Best Practice: Interview case manager to help student learn about his/her particular
disability
9th grade (14/15)
 Statement of Transition Service Needs
 Planning on college?
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Talk with guidance councilor
Take college preparatory classes (with support if needed)
Use self-advocacy re: discussion of support needs with teacher(s)
Appropriate assessment (testing) to determine accommodation need for PSAT/SAT
 Courses identified in IEP
 Consultation with DVRS
 Computer labs accessibility
 Assistive technology
*Best Practice: Invitation to DVRS counselor to come talk with students: Study skills
courses designed to develop time management skills, improve memory, improve note
taking skills, etc.
10th grade (15/16)
 Planning on college?--- PSAT
 Discuss academic strengths/weaknesses at IEP meeting
 Address areas of independent living needed for college
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Organizational skills
Time management skills
Problem-solving skills
Self-monitoring skills
Self-advocacy skills
Social Skills
 Research colleges via internet, college catalogs, etc.
 Job Shadowing?
 Courses identified in IEP
 Computer labs accessibility
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Assistive technology
 Notice of Transfer of Rights (by age 15)
*Best Practice: Speakers Bureau, invitation to local college/career day
11th grade (16/17)
 Statement of needed Transition Services
 Instruction, Employment, Community Experience, Adult Living, Related Services
 Courses identified in IEP
 Computer labs accessibility
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Assistive technology
 Job Sampling in identified career interests
 DVRS - open file?
 SAT - accommodation needed?
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Current evaluation necessary?
 College identification/visits
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Financial application
 College application
*Best Practice: Opportunities to talk with students presently in college to learn more
about college demands
12th grade (17/18)
 Statement of Needed Transition Services (cont.)
 Courses identified in IEP
 Computer labs accessibility
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Assistive technology
 College identified
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Admissions testing requirements
Testing accommodations
College interviews, references
Meeting college application deadline
Meeting financial aid application deadline
 College accommodations office/liaison identified
 Internships as identified in IEP
*Best Practice: Role-playing with seniors re: College Interview/Questions to ask
College’s Student Disability Office (see suggestions)
Questions to Ask of the College Student Disability Office
1. How many students with disabilities are on campus? Are they full time, part time,
residents, commuters? Are they the typical age of college students, or older?
2. What are the goals/ objectives of this program?
3. What services are provided? Is there a charge for this service? How do I get this
service?
4. What records/documentation of a disability are needed to get academic
accommodations? How recent does the testing need to be?
5. What specialized training in disabilities do you have?
6. Is tutoring and/or counseling provided on one-to-one, or group? If group, how large
is it? How often can I get this?
7. How long do I get these services? A semester, one year, two?
8. Are there any courses unavailable to students with disabilities?
9. Are there courses required of students with learning disabilities? If so , do they carry
college credit toward graduation?
10. Can I carry less than a full course load in my first year?
11. How many students with disabilities have graduated from this college? What fields?
12. Will the college provide the specific accommodations that I need?
13. What accommodations have faculty/administrators been willing to make for students
with disabilities?
14. Are support groups available?
15. Is there a computer lab that has the assistive technology I need to be successful?
Preparation for the College Interview
An interviewer will probably not ask these specific questions but might ask ones
that are similar. Think about these questions. The idea is to focus in on who you are and
to be able to verbalize what you stand for, what makes you what you are. You want
admission officers to see from your responses that you are a terrific, sensitive and
intelligent adult!
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Why are you considering this College?
How did you come to include us among your choices?
What makes you think this college and you are right for each other?
Where else are you applying and why?
Which is your first choice?
What do you hope to major in? Why?
What are your plans for the future? What do you expect to be doing ten years from
now?
8. What have you liked or disliked about your high school?
9. If you were the principal of your school, what would you change?
10. What would you like to tell us about yourself?
11. What newspapers and magazines do you read? How often>
12. What books not required by your courses have you read recently?
13. What television shows do you watch?
14. Tell us about your family.
15. How do you spend a typical afternoon after school? Evening? Weekends?
16. What extra curricular activities have you faound most satisfying?
17. What are your strengths? Weaknesses?
18. Do you have any heroes, contemporary or historical?
19. How would your best friend describe you?
20. If you could talk to any one living person, whom would it be and why?
21. How do you feel about: The legalization of drugs? Advertising? Restrictions on
immigration?
22. What events have been crucial in your life?
23. What is the most significant contribution you’ve ever made to your school or
community?
24. What is the most important thing you have learned in high school?
25. What historical event do you feel has had the most impact on the twentieth century?
26. Tell me about your innermost fears.
27. What do you want to get out of your college experience?
28. Volunteering?
Getting In, DeOliveria and Cohen, Workman Publishing, New York