Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Be Prepared!
Can we every to too prepared for life's many challenges? This thought has been on my mind quite a bit lately as I see my aging parents requiring more and more of me. But the notion of being prepared for transitions must always be on the minds of parents of children with disabilities. Transition planning is becoming the basis of the IEP. Fewer references to NBA and NFL futures are making it into the documents; more realistic choices about post-secondary training, education, and employment are appearing. If you have been following Charles Fox's blog , Special Education Law Blog (linked at right) you know that transition assessments are critical to the process. He provided a link to a laundry list of transition checklists and assessments to get good student input. As special educators and administrators, I hope we can use the many tools now available to make their post-secondary transition as smooth as it can be.
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I have often thanked my own parents for taking the time to plan their own transition to a retirement community since I have watched many of my friends struggling to find places when illness leads to emergencies. Your connection with the lives of young people is a good one: we need to be realistic about the future and make plans based on the known world.
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