Special Education Transitions
Transition planning is part of the Individual Education Plan (IEP) process for children and adolescents with disabilities. Planning for transitions from program to program across a student's academic career provides support and modifications that might be needed in order to promote a student's progress. Each level of educational program presents its own set of challenges, and planning for those challenges -- as a student moves from pre-school, to elementary school, to secondary school, and finally to post-secondary settings -- can avoid ineffective use of resources while maximizing the student's academic experience. This paper briefly discusses transition planning across different school and program levels for a student who has been identified as emotionally and behaviorally disordered (EBD) and who might be attending school at Lake...
The school serves all ages of children from pre-Kindergarten through
high school (Holcombe School, 2011). There are approximately 116 high school students (Holcombe School, 2011). In this cross-categorical program, transition planning may be less complicated than in schools with more formal divisions between age-level and grade-level programs, simply because everyone is under the same roof, so to speak (Holcombe School, 2011). On the other hand, one of the tenets of transition planning is to extend the students' experiences beyond their current environment -- this is the fundamental challenge facing Lake Holcombe school -- a challenge that naturally takes on more significance as the students mature and progress through their programs.
In Wisconsin, the Cooperative Educational Services Agency (CSEA) operates a Center for Students with Disabilities that helps to deliver services and programs under the federal Individuals…
