Description: Moving On: Planning for the Future is the ICI's transition guide for students, parents, and educators. Each section of the guide addresses an aspect of the transition process. Transition from high school includes all areas of life and more topics than can be adequately described on paper; however, this guide provides you with a detailed introduction to what lies ahead and descriptions of enough resources to get you started in the transition process.

This manual is produced by the Institute on Community Inclusion (ICI) and is posted on their web site.
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  Transition Planning for Adolescents with Special Health Care Needs and Disabilities 
Description: This booklet has been developed for families to help you prepare with your teen for his/her adulthood. Just as families have had to spend more than the average amount of time attending to their young child's care, the transition to adulthood will be best accomplished if families devote extra effort and energy to that transition. This booklet has been written to help and guide you --- to give you the information, ideas, tools and resources you need along the way.

This booklet was created through a joint effort of the Institute for Community Inclusion at Children's Hospital, Boston and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, as part of the Massachusetts Initiative for Youth with Disabilities. Supported in part by project #H01MC00006 from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (Title V, Social Security Act), Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services. It is published on the website of the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI).

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  Social Skills Instruction: A Factsheet from OSEP 
Description: This factsheet defines Social Skills Instruction and discusses methods of preventing and replacing problem behavior and increasing social competence. It makes recommendations for enhancing schools' ability to improve social competence in students.
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  Moving On...Planning for the Future 
Description: Introduces the topic of transition at its ideal, and addresses the realities of adult services that youth and families face at transition time (1995).

This brief is produced by the Institute for Community Inclusion and is posted on their web site.
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  Peer Tutoring and Mentoring Services for Disadvantaged Secondary School Students 
Description: This report summarizes a national evaluation of school peer tutoring and mentoring programs created under the one-year federal Secondary Schools Basic Skills Demonstration Assistance Program. The report also addresses: common problems and how to overcome them, an overview of peer tutoring projects, program challenges, features of effective programs, and policy implications. (1997)
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  The Most Important Member: Facilitating the Focus Person's Participation in Person Centered Planning 
Description: This brief summarizes research that sought to understand the participation of young people as they transition from school to adult life using person centered planning. Following a review of the major findings of the study, implications for practice are discussed including a number of specific recommendations to assist facilitators in maximizing student participation.

This brief is produced by the Institute on Community Inclusion (ICI) and is posted on their web site.
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  Working together for successful paraeducator services: A guide for teachers and paraeducators 
Description: By Request is a quarterly booklet series produced by the NW Regional Educational Laboratory. This report addresses issues related to paraeducator services. The booklets contains a discussion of research and literature pertinent to the issue, a sampling of how Northwest schools are addressing the issue, suggestions for adapting these ideas to schools, selected references, and contact information.
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  Functional Behavioral Assessment: A Factsheet from OSEP 
Description: This factsheet discusses Functional Behavioral Assessment as a key component of creating effective behavior support plans. It states IDEA requirements for FBAs and touches on a variety of techniques available to conduct FBA assessments.
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  Stories of Success: Using Networking and Mentoring Relationships in Career Planning for Students... 
Description: This brief includes examples of how students and families have successfully used networking and mentoring relationships to learn about jobs and find employment, and explains how students and their families can learn to build and use their personal networks throughout the career planning process.

This Tools for Inclusion brief was produced by the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) and is posted on their website.
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  Transition requirements: A guide for states, districts, schools, universities and families 
Description: (from the introduction) The purpose of this monograph is to provide technical assistance for the appropriate implementation of the transition requirements of Public Law 105-17, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 1997 and the final regulations published on March 12, 1999 (http://www.ideapractices.org/lawandregs.htm). This monograph is designed to clarify the transition requirements of the IDEA, provide samples, and suggest practices to implement those requirements. The intended audience for this monograph is broad: state, district and school personnel; families and institutions of higher education. It may be used by state education agency personnel, local education agency administrators, and teachers as a basis for evaluating and improving the transition requirements in Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). Students and families may find it useful to enhance their understanding of the transition requirements and their capacity to actively plan for the student’s future. Institutions of higher education could use it as a teaching tool and resource. Readers are encouraged to use the checklists, letters and forms that are included and to adapt them as needed. (May 2000)
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  Supplemental Security Income Work Incentives and Transition Students: 
Description: This fact sheet is produced by the Work Incentives Transition Network Work (WITN) and is posted on the website of the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI). Published in October, 1999.
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  Postsecondary Education As A Critical Step toward Meaningful Employment: Vocational Rehabilitation's 
Description: Postsecondary education up a world of opportunities for high school graduates. Research shows that access to the opportunities afforded by a postsecondary education makes an enormous difference in the employability of people with disabilities. This brief focuses on people who have received education supports from Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) agencies and their rehabilitation outcomes.

This research to practice brief is published by the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) and is posted on their web site. Click below for more details.

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  Teacher Created Processes for Embedding Alternate Assessment Requirements into Ongoing Classroom... 
Description: Teacher Created Processes for Embedding Alternate Assessment Requirements into Ongoing Classroom Instruction (2000) This article answers a critical question: To what extent can teachers use the structure of the Alternate Portfolio as an "instructional organizer" in developing individualized curricular and instructional adaptations for their students? This resource is published on the website of the Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute (IHDI-UCE) at the University of Kentucky.
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  Planning for life after high school: A guidebook 
Description: This handbook is a resource on preparing and planning for the postsecondary experience. It includes information and checklists on what to expect and how to prepare and plan for postsecondary education.
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  The Use of Tests When Making High-Stakes Decisions for Students: A Resource Guide for Educators... 
Description: This resource guide has been developed by the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) in an effort to assemble the best information regarding test measurement standards, legal principles, and resources to help educators and policy-makers ensure that uses of tests as a part of decision-making that has high-stakes consequences for students are educationally sound and legally appropriate. Chapter One of this guide provides information about professionally recognized test measurement principles. Chapter Two provides the legal frameworks that have guided federal courts and OCR when addressing the use of tests that have high-stakes consequences for students.
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  Effective Customer Service Delivery in Employment Support: Finding a Common Ground Between Guided... 
Description: Characteristics of effective employment services based on the experiences of individuals who successfully found jobs through agencies. Consumers were active recipients of services who shaped their own career searches to achieve a balance between support and independence. Describes characteristics of the Guided and Self-Directed approaches and provides recommendations for agency staff.

This research to practice brief is produced by the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) and is posted on their web site.
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  Providing a Quality Accommodated Experience in Preparation for and During Post-Secondary School 
Description: This information brief addresses distinctions between "accommodations" and "quality accommodations" at the secondary and postsecondary levels. Steps for and challenges with providing quality accommodated experineces are presented.

Produced by the National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET) (March 2002)
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  Schoolwide Approaches to Behavior: A Factsheet from OSEP 
Description: This factsheet introduces the concept of Schoolwide Approaches to Behavior as a means of including school staff, students, and families in the development, discussion, and implementation of rules and consequences for problem behavior.
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  From Stress to Success: Making Social Security Work for Your Young Adult 
Description: How does Social Security affect families as their children move into adulthood? This brief shares families' experiences and suggests ways that families can manage SSI and use it to help a young adult prepare for their career.

Published by the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) and available from their website.
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  IDEA 1997 Transition Issues: The IEP for Transition Aged Students 
Description: This brief explains the transition requirements under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, describes the membership and roles of the IEP Transition Team, and describes factors that IEP Team should consider.

This brief is produced by the National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET) and PACER Center and can be found on the NCSET website.
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  Transition Age Special Education Students and SSI: What Parents Should Know 
Description: This fact sheet offers information on eligibility to receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. SSI is an income support program that provides monthly payments to persons with disabilities who have limited income and resources. (1999)

This information is produced by the Work Incentives Transition Network (WITN) and is posted on the Institute for Community Inclusion website.
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  Youth with Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System: A Factsheet from OSEP 
Description: This document offers information about schoolwide prevention activities for youth with disabilities. It details key practices in preventing antisocial behavior in youth, providing appropriate special education services in correctional systems and facilitating transition between correctional facilities and the community.
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  Barriers to Transition Planning for Parents of Adolescents with Special Health Care Needs 
Description: This research to practice brief provides an examination of the transition planning experiences and concerns of family members of young adults with special health care needs.

This brief is produced by the Institute on Community Inclusion (ICI) and is posted on their website.
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  Promoting effective parent involvement in secondary education and transition 
Description: The parent brief addresses discusses how parents can become advocates, mentors, and guides for their transition-age youth with disabilities attending college and other post-secondary education.

Produced by the National Center for Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET) and the Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights (PACER) Center. (March 2002)
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  Building a Future: Working with the Post-High School Expectations of Students and Parents 
Description: Reports the findings from the first year of a study of Massachusetts high school students who are receiving special education services. The goals of this project include examining student and parent expectations, understanding what factors play an important role in the planning process, and discovering what circumstances may predict high expectations for students and parents. The study will also examine the impact of Social Security on the transition process. (2000)

This is a publication of the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) and is published on their web site.
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