Kentucky Model for Interagency Individual Transition Planning for Students with Disabilities

256 Pages·1991·13.1 MB·English

by  Kentucky Executive Transition Task Force

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THE KENTUCKY MODEL
FOR
INTERAGENCY INDIVIDUAL
TRANSITION PLANNING
FOR
STUDENTS WITH
DISABILITIES
Developed by the Kentucky Executive Transition Task Force
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KENTUCKY INTERAGENCY INDIVIDUAL
TRANSITION PLANNING GUIDE
Manual
Directions
Successful transition Kentucky Legal designated by the ARC.
from school to community Obligations and The agencies responsible
life is the ultimate goal Standards (Legal for providing the
for all students. To meet Obligation 7.9.3.), services and/or support
this goal, human service which require the to the student will be
•providers are challenged admissions and release listed on the IITP in
to give quality direct committee (ARC) to the Action Plan.
services to enable initiate transition Activities conducted by
persons "with planning by age 16. an agency in order to
disabilities to become provide a particular
self-sufficient and The IITP is a six-page service should be
active in community life. planning document outlined in the Action
designed to facilitate Plan as well. Timelines
Attending college to discussion of long-range should also be establish-
pursue a degree, goals and to promote ed for completion of
sharing an apartment coordination of school agency responsibilities
with a friend, obtaining and post-school
a }ob, <md participating individual transition Interagency Individual
in community events are services. The format of transition planning
options that many the IITP can also be provides the admissions
students take for useful for school and and release committee
granted. For individuals community needs assess- transition information
with disabilities ment and stateMide needed for the
community integration systems analysis. development of a
and participation often statement of transition
does not occur -without The Interagency services as a part of
systematic planning and Individual Transition the individual education
intervention. Plan (IITP) is a program. Since some
longitudinal planning transition goals and
Successful transition to document that is objectives from the IITP
post-school environments separate from, but are then to be
will most likely occur related to the IEP. IITP implemented by school
when planning efforts Planning should be staff, those are
have preceded the viewed as an assessment incorporated into the
transition. This belief and interagency planning IEP.
is supported by the process. Its purpose is
Individuals with to assist the admissions A partnership approach
Disabilities Education and release committee to individual transition
Act (WEA:PL 101-476), (ARC) in determining planning is not only
which requires that desired post-school desired but required to
mlEPs include a student outcomes as well provide quality
statement of the needed as services needed to transition services. The
transition services for attain and maintain school, parents, and
students beginning no these outcomes. The adult service agencies
later than age 16 and IITP is developed by must work collabora-
annually thereafter (and appropriate school staff, tively to facilitate an
when determined parents, representatives effective transition for
appropriate for the of adult and human all students.
individual beginning at service agencies and
,
age 14 or younger).'' It the student as
is also supported by The
Adapted by the Kentucky Executive Transition Task Force from materials developed
by the Illinois Transition Project, 1990, Southern Illinois University.
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PREFACE
The material provided in this document was developed by the Kentucky
Executive Transition Task Force. This group (See Appendix F for full Task
Force Membership) consists of the state government agencies listed below.
On April 2, 1990, the Kentucky Interagency Agreement on Transition
Services was finalized and signed by representatives of the state government
agencies serving on the Task Force. This Interagency Agreement contains
goals and objectives designed to improve state level coordination of
transition planning and services. One of the objectives of the Interagency
Agreement specifically addresses creation of a systematic process for
interagency transition planning for all students with disabilities prior to
exiting school. This has led to the development of this document. It is to
be used by local agencies that will have the responsibility for collaborating
to achieve positive outcomes for individual stu lents in their transition from
school to community settings.
Kentucky Department of Education:
Office of Learning Program Development
Division of Special Learning Needs
Division of Curriculum Development
Office of Special Instructional Programs
Division of Secondary Vocational Education
Division of Exceptional Children Services
Kentucky Commission on the Deaf and Hearing Impaired
Workforce Development Cabinet:
Department of Vocational Rehabilitation
Department for Adult and Technical Education
Department for the Blind
Cabinet for Human Resources:
Department for Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services
Division of Mental Retardation
Division of Mental Health
Department of Employment Services
Division for Training & Employment
Kentucky Developmental Disabilities Planning Council
Department for Social Services
Kentucky Statewide Systems Change Project - University of Kentucky
Statewide Transition and Facilitation Project - University of Kentucky
Council on Higher Education
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