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Indiana Secondary Transition Resource Center

Secondary Transition Services Programming Resources

Student-Focused Planning IEP Development, Student Participation, Accommodations & Planning Strategies

Student Development Academic Instruction, Life Skills Instruction, Employment Skills Instruction, Career & Vocational Curricula, Structured Work Experience, Assessment, Support Services

  • Co-Teaching Tutorial

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/index.php?pageId=97
    Nov 6, 2012
    This self-guided tutorial allows teachers and administrators to gain awareness about a co-teaching and collaboration framework.

  • Cognitive Behavioral Interventions: An Effective Approach to Help Students with Disabilities Stay in School

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/TuesTips/CBI_Practice_Brief.pdf
    Aug 14, 2012
      -   PDF
    A 6-page brief from the National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities outlining a 6-step cognitive-behavioral problem-solving strategy to help reduce aggressive behaviors and help students with disabilities stay in school.

  • College Students Who Are Deaf-Blind

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/TuesTips/CollegeStudentsWhoareDeafBlind.pdf
    Aug 14, 2012
      -   PDF
    This research-to-practice brief from the National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness describes some of the issues and support needs for students going to college who are deaf-blind.

  • Definitions of Learning Environment Characteristics

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/2011TransitionForum/guydefinition%20oflearning.pdf
    Aug 14, 2012
      -   PDF
    This handout, presented by Barbara Guy at the Indiana Statewide Transition Forum on August 2011, gives detailed definitions of sensory, motor and physical characteristics that can impact student learning.

  • Effective Instruction for Adolescent Struggling Readers

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/TuesTips/Effective_Instruction_for_Adolescent_Struggling_Readers.pdf
    Aug 14, 2012
      -   PDF
    This practice brief provides knowledge about best practices for older students who struggle to read and focuses on the reading skills needed to access content-area curriculum and in turn, help students meet postsecondary goals.

  • Employability Life/Skills Assessment

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/Webinars/Employability_skills_checklist.pdf
    Aug 14, 2012
      -   PDF
    This criterion-referenced checklist, from Ohio’s Employability Skills Project, assesses a student’s level of performance in twenty-four critical skill areas.

  • Exploration Phase: Career Education Checklist

    http://www.mnddc.org/extra/publications/choice/Its_My_Choice.pdf
    Aug 14, 2012
      -   PDF
    The Exploration Phase: Career Education Checklist is an easy-to-complete checklist for the initial or exploration stage of career education and transition assessment.

  • Good Job Match

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/Todays_Career_Headlines.pdf
      -   Aug 28, 2012
      -   PDF
    This listing of job and work environment characteristics is designed to help students and youth better understand themselves and find jobs and careers that would be a good match.

  • Health Fact Sheet – Asthma and Diabetes

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/TuesTips/archive/Health_Related_Disabilities.pdf
      -   Oct 4, 2012
      -   PDF
    Medical fact sheets for teachers about asthma and diabetes. Presented by the Indiana University School of Medicine Center for Youth and Adults with Conditions of Childhood.

  • Health Fact Sheet – Seizure and Sickle Cell

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/TuesTips/archive/Sickle_Cell_and_Seizure.pdf
      -   Oct 4, 2012
      -   PDF
    Medical fact sheets for teachers about Seizure and Sickle Cell disorders. Presented by the Indiana University School of Medicine Center for Youth and Adults with Conditions of Childhood.

  • Health Fact Sheet--Teen Pregnancy & Teen Pregnancy with Intellectual Disabilities

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/Fact_Sheet_Teen_Pregnancy_with_Disability.pdf
    Aug 14, 2012
      -   PDF
    Medical fact sheets for teachers about teen pregnancy and pregnancy in teens who have intellectual disabilities. Presented by the Indiana University School of Medicine Center for Youth and Adults with Conditions of Childhood (CYACC).

  • Individualized Learning Plans for All

    http://www.ncwd-youth.info/ilp/how-to-guide
      -   Aug 28, 2012
      -   Online Learning ,  PDF
    "Promoting Quality Individualized Learning Plans: A 'How to Guide' Focused on the High School Years" , is an online guide for schools, educators, and other professionals who assist youth with college and career readiness and transition planning.

  • Informal Inventory of Independence and Self-Advocacy Skills for Deaf/Hard of Hearing Students

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/self_advocacy_inventory_revised_2010.pdf
    Aug 14, 2012
      -   PDF
    The Informal Inventory of Independence and Self-Advocacy Skills for Deaf/Hard of Hearing Students is a transition assessment tool for teachers who work with students who are deaf or hard of hearing.

  • Intimate Relationships and Sexual Health

    http://www.aapcpublishing.net/book/view/678/intimate-relationships-and-sexual-health-a-curriculum-for-teaching-adolescentsadults-with-high-functioning-autism-spectrum-disorders-and-other-social-challenges
      -   Aug 28, 2012
    Intimate Relationships and Sexual Health: A Curriculum for Teaching Adolescents/Adults with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders and Other Social Challenges is a comprehensive guide for teachers and parents, available through AAPC publishers.

  • Involving Students in Transition Planning – A Webinar

    http://connect.iu.edu/p9ndq7mr7zm/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal
      -   Aug 28, 2012
      -   Word 97-2003
    This archived webinar features two presentations: 1) a self-determination toolkit for teachers and 2) self-advocacy skills to help students lead their own transition IEP meetings. Featuring presenters Liza Bates and Mandy Walker.

  • Is College for You?: Setting Goals and Taking Action

    styles/iidc/defiles/instrc/College4U-5.pdf
      -   Oct 4, 2012
      -   PDF
    Is College for You? guides students and their parents through career goals, learning styles, types of colleges and programs, self-advocacy, important timelines, paying for college, accommodations, and more.

  • It’s My Choice

    http://mn.gov/mnddc/extra/publications/choice/Its_My_Choice.pdf
    May 15, 2013
      -   PDF
    It's My Choice is a guide for individuals with developmental disabilities that provides activities and checklists to help students work on choice-making and decision-making, two critical self-determination skills.

  • Learning Styles Inventory

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/TuesTips/learning_style_inventory.pdf
      -   Aug 28, 2012
      -   PDF
    This short, 3-page learning style inventory can be used as a transition assessment.

  • Life Skills Inventory: Independent Living Skills Assessment Tool

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/Webinars/Life_skills_inventory.pdf
    Aug 14, 2012
      -   PDF
    The Life Skills Inventory is a 9-page assessment of a student’s independent living skills.

  • Navigating College: A Handbook on Self-Advocacy

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/NavigatingCollegeHandbook.pdf
    Aug 14, 2012
      -   PDF
    Navigating College: A Handbook on Self-Advocacy is a resource, written by individuals with autism, for students on the autism spectrum who are considering college.

  • Peer Mentoring: Learning Together

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/index.php?pageId=3558
      -   Oct 16, 2012
      -   Online Learning
    This video, produced by the Indiana Secondary Transition Resource Center, features examples of peer mentoring in a high school setting and is part of a student curriculum, Peer Mentoring: Learning Together, available from INSTRC September 2012.

  • Peer Mentoring: Learning Together (Student)

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/index.php?pageId=9&mode=mod_order&action=shop&todo=display_prod&prod_id=179&r=1350326897
    Apr 15, 2013
      -   Online Learning
    This online, interactive curriculum for students, developed by the Indiana Secondary Transition Resource Center, prepares high school students as they learn to support their peers with disabilities in the classroom and throughout the school.

  • Peer Mentoring: Learning Together (Teacher)

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/index.php?pageId=9&mode=mod_order&action=shop&todo=display_prod&prod_id=179&r=1350326897
    Apr 15, 2013
      -   Online Learning
    This online, interactive curriculum for students, developed by the Indiana Secondary Transition Resource Center, prepares high school students as they learn to support their peers with disabilities in the classroom and throughout the school.

  • Personal Preference Indicators

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/Webinars/Personal_Preference_Indicator.pdf
    Aug 28, 2012
      -   PDF
    This 12-page booklet and guide helps teachers and individuals with developmental disabilities assess information about preferences and self-determination skills.

  • Personal Preference Indicators – Applying the Personal Preference Indicators to Post Secondary Adult Living, Employment, and Education

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/Webinars/PPI_Vocational_Supplement.doc
      -   Aug 28, 2012
      -   Word 97-2003
    This is a worksheet supplement to the Personal Preference Indicators booklet. Preferences can be categorized as they apply to postsecondary adult living, employment, and education/training.

  • Self-Advocacy Checklist

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/TuesTips/PERC_SelfAdvchecklist.pdf
      -   Aug 28, 2012
      -   PDF
    This self-determination and self-advocacy tool can be used as part of the transition assessment process.

  • Self-Determination Checklist Student Self-Assessment

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/TuesTips/SelfDeterminationChecklistStudentSelf-Assessment1.pdf
      -   Aug 28, 2012
      -   PDF
    The Self-Determination Checklist Student Self-Assessment is a self-determination assessment tool that can be used as part of the transition assessment process.

  • Self-Determination Observation Checklist (SDOC)

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/TuesTips/SDobservation-checklist-2.pdf
      -   Aug 28, 2012
      -   PDF
    The Self-Determination Observation Checklist (SDOC) is a self-determination assessment tool that can be used as part of the transition assessment process.

  • Self-Determination/Self-Advocacy Checklist

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/TuesTips/Self-Det-Self-Advocacy_Checklist_Cell_10.pdf
      -   Aug 28, 2012
      -   PDF
    The Self-Determination/Self-Advocacy Checklist is a self-determination assessment tool that can be used as part of the transition assessment process.

  • Soft Skills to Pay the Bills

    http://www.dol.gov/odep/topics/youth/softskills/
      -   Aug 28, 2012
      -   Online Learning ,  PDF
    This free curriculum developed by the Office of Disability Employment Policy focuses on teaching workforce readiness skills youth, ages 14 to 21, in both in-school and out-of-school environments.

  • Student Personal Profile

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/Student_Personal_Profile_Template.pdf
      -   Aug 28, 2012
      -   PDF
    The Student Personal Profile is a way of gathering information about students and their traits that will be helpful in planning for and finding work experiences and jobs.

  • Student Self-Assessment and Reflections (Transition Assessment Tool)

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/TuesTips/Student_Self_eval_benefits.pdf
      -   Mar 18, 2013
      -   PDF
    This transition assessment tool is for students who spend all or the majority of time in general education classes. Teachers gain transition assessment information from projects, experiences, and specific class activities.

  • Students Choosing and Using Assistive Technology

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/Hey_Can_I_Try_That.pdf
      -   Aug 28, 2012
      -   PDF
    Hey! Can I try That? is a student handbook for choosing and using assistive technology.

  • The 411 on Disability Disclosure: A Workbook

    http://www.ncwd-youth.info/assets/guides/411/411_Disability_Disclosure_complete.pdf
    Aug 14, 2012
      -   PDF
    The 411 on Disability Disclosure is a workbook resource that helps young people make informed decisions about whether or not to disclose their disability.

  • Tips and Strategies for Co-Teaching at the Secondary Level

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/Co_Teachinig_at_the_Secondary_Level.pdf
      -   Aug 28, 2012
      -   PDF
    “Tips and Strategies for Co-Teaching at the Secondary Level” is an article, from Teaching Exceptional Children, provided for special education teachers who co-teach in general education classes.

  • Transition Assessment Resource Guide

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/index.php?pageId=3468
    Aug 28, 2012
      -   PDF
    The Transition Assessment Resource Guide includes over 60 individual transition assessment tools along with websites for additional tools and curricula.

  • Transition Services: Definitions and Examples

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/Transition_Services_and_Activities_Definition_and_Examples.pdf
    Oct 22, 2012
      -   PDF
    Provides definitions and examples of transition services.

  • Universal Design for Differentiated Instruction 1

    http://breeze.iu.edu/pfssk/
      -   Jul 11, 2012
      -   Online Learning
    First of two self-guided tutorials, both describing the UDDI framework. This tutorial is narrated by students and approaches UDDI from their perspective.

  • Universal Design for Differentiated Instruction 2

    http://breeze.iu.edu/pfsst/
      -   Jul 11, 2012
      -   Online Learning
    The second of two self-guided tutorials, both describing the UDDI framework. This tutorial features more traditional presentation of the UDDI framework.

  • What You Need to Know to Facilitate Quality Work Experiences

    http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/2011TransitionForum/lueckingpowerpoint.pdf
      -   Aug 28, 2012
      -   PDF
    A presentation by Richard Luecking on providing quality work experiences for students with disabilities.

Family Involvement Family Training, Family Involvement, Family Empowerment Strategies

Interagency Collaboration Collaboration Framework, Collaborative Service Delivery

Program Structures Program Philosophy, Program Policy, Strategic Planning, Program Evaluation, Resource Allocation, Human Resource Development