2019 TASH Conference

Whether you are a transition coordinator (also called transition specialists, facilitators, and administrators) or a secondary special secondary educator, preparing your students for life after school is a very challenging role. This important work to support students to succeed, achieve, and realize a successful future requires skills practitioners. This session will help you to answer the question, "Now what do I do?" if your role in supporting students seems overwhelming or when you need concrete solutions on what to do next. This session will share a range of strategies, resources and information with participants about how to support effective, high quality and evidence-based transition practices and programs. Effective transition programs can be designed to address a wide range of transition education and services for students with disabilities. Because of the complexity of transition, no one professional can sufficiently impact or provide the variety of needed services and supports. We will review the different roles in transition and how participants can focus on unique elements of the bigger process, depending on whether they are a secondary special educator, transition coordinator, an educational or adult agency professional, or transition stakeholder (e.g., family members). Understanding all of the critical features of high-quality transition programs may seem daunting, and to break down what makes a transition program effective, we will structure this session to address essential quality indicators of transition programs and clarify who is best suited to coordinate and implement each critical component.