October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). This year is the 70th anniversary of this program (1945-2015). NWESD is providing the following list of resources for you as a reference point.
- School Counselors: Facilitating Transitions for Students with Disabilities from High School to Post-School Settings
- Secondary Transition: Helping Students with Disabilities Plan for Post-High School Settings
Web Resources
- Center on Technology and Disability
- College and Career Readiness and Success Center
- Doing What Works (resources hosted by WestEd)
- National Center on Deaf-Blindness (NCDB)
- National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO)
- National Post-School Outcomes Center (NPSO)
- National Postsecondary Education Programs Network (pn2)
- National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC)
- National Technical Assistance Center on Transition (NTACT)
- What Works Clearinghouse (U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Services)
25 Resources on Transition from the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)
- 7 Steps for Success
- Adolescents and Adults with Learning Disabilities and ADHD
- Aligning Transition and Standards-Based Education
- Autism Spectrum Disorders Family Community TEC Collection
- Building Alliances: A How-to Manual to Support Transitioning
- CCSS in Writing: Impliciations for Students with Learning Disabilities and Their Teacher
- DEC Recommended Practices: Enhancing Serivces for Young Children
- Effective Transition Programs for Youth with EBD: RENEW Model
- Engaging and Empowering Families in Secondary Transition
- Footsteps Toward the Future: DADD Prism Series, Vol. 9
- Getting Around Town: Teaching Community Mobility Skills
- IEP Development and Coordination with Transition Plans for Youth with EBD
- Informal Assessment for Transition Planning, Second Edition
- Integrating Transition Planning into the IEP Process
- Life Centered Education: The Teacher's Guide
- Self-Determination Strategies for Adolescents in Transition
- Sustaining Effective Practices When Principals Change
- Technology for Transition and Postsecondary Success
- The Power of RTI: Classroom Management Strategies K-6 (DVD)
- Transition of Secondary Students with EBD, Second Edition
- Transition of Youth with EBD and Age-Appropriate Assessments
- Transition Teacher Pack, The
- Transition Teaming: 26 Strategies for Interagency Collaboration
- Transitioing to College: A Guide
- Writing Indicator 13 – Compliant Transition Plans
If you know of other transition resources that would benefit the NWESD region, please send the information to Kristi and she will review and post.