Websites
The Alliance for Parents
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), the ALLIANCE (The Technical Assistance ALLIANCE for Parent Centers) is a partnership of one national and six regional parent technical assistance centers. These centers provide parents with training, community resources, publications and IDEA information.
http://www.taalliance.org/about/index.asp
NICHCY
The National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilties serves the nation as a center for information on all aspects of disabilties, such as the laws, research-based practices, and disability-specific resources.
http://www.nichcy.org/Pages/Home.aspx
The Transition Coalition
The Transition Coalition provides online information, support, and professional development on topics related to the transition from school to adult life for youth with disabilities.
http://transitioncoalition.org/transition/index.php
Books
Advising High School Students with Disabilities on Postsecondary Options
This booklet published by HEATH helps guidance and career counselors help high school students with disabilities in accomplishing transitions into postsecondary education and employment.
http://www.heath.gwu.edu/images/stories/Toolkit.pdf
Tips for Transition
The Tips for Transition booklet contains 134 Transition Tips submitted from all over the country by practitioners. The purpose of the Tips was to identify grassroots transition practices being used by practitioners.
Tips are categorized into the following domains.
- Transition Planning
- Student Involvement
- Family Involvement
- Curriculum and Instruction
- Transition Assessment
- Assistive Technology and UDL
- Students with Specific Disabilities
- Interagency Collaboration
- Groups
An online database of the Tips is also available on The Transition Coalition website (see above).