Ellisa Hayes
Phone: 904-348-5205
Fax: 904-858-3625
Transition Services support students with disabilities in planning and preparing for life beyond high school. The goal is to ensure a seamless progression to adult settings such as post-secondary education, employment, and independent living. The Transition IEP (TIEP) meeting gathers the student, family, school staff, and community agencies to collaboratively plan for the future. As highlighted in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), student involvement is central to creating meaningful, personalized goals. Transition planning begins at age 14 and continues through age 21, focusing on the skills and supports needed to achieve each student’s unique goals for adulthood.
Designed to be a results-oriented process that is focused on improving the academic and functional achievement of the student with a disability to facilitate the student’s movement from school to post-school activities, including post-secondary education, vocational education, integrated employment (including supported employment), continuing and adult education, adult services, independent living, or community participation; and…
Based on the individual student’s needs, taking into account the student’s strengths, preferences and interests; and
Includes: instruction, related services, community experiences, employment and other post-school adult living objectives, and if appropriate, acquisition of daily living skills.
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