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External Resources

General Transition Resources

  • National Technical Assistance Center on Transition: Collaborative (NTACT: C): This website includes a range of resources to help educators implement evidence-based transition practices.
  • Transition Tennessee: This website is applicable to states beyond Tennessee. The website includes a range of resources, including a transition assessment database, that teachers can use to provide high-quality transition services.
  • Zarrow Institute on Transition: This website provides educators with a variety of transition assessments they can use to better understand student’s preferences, interests, needs, and strengths.
  • Illinois Center for Transition to Work: This website focuses on strategies to help students with disabilities prepare for post-school employment.
  • Think College: This website provides in-depth information and resources about opportunities for students with intellectual disabilities to attend college.
  • Charting the Life Course: This website has a variety of tools transition teams can use to plan for student’s post-school life and identify supports and services to help them reach their goals.
  • I’m Determined: This website has tools to help students increase their self-determination.

Military-Specific Resources

  • Military Child Transition Toolkit: This website shares resources for educators to support mobile students and their parents including best practices in welcoming new students, how to develop intra-school communication protocols, and develop student portfolios.
  • Military OneSource: This website provides specific guidance to educators supporting mobile students. In particular, the website includes links to state-level resources dedicated to supporting mobile students and their families.
  • School Liaison Program: Use this website to find your school liaison

Citations

Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act, Pub. L. No. 106-446, 118 Stat. 2647. (2004).

Kohler, P. D. (1996). Taxonomy for transition programming. Champaign: University of Illinois

Landmark, L. J., Song Ju, & Dalun Zhang. (2010). Substantiated best practices in transition: Fifteen plus years later. Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 33(3), 165-176.

Test, D. W., Mazzotti, V. L., Mustian, A. L., Fowler, C. H., Kortering, L., & Kohler, P. (2009). Evidence-based secondary transition predictors for improving postschool outcomes for students with disabilities. Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 32(3), 160-181.


The above resources, links, and references may include both no cost and cost-based resources and inclusion in this list does not constitute endorsement by DOW or USDA.