Transition Planning for Secondary Students with Disabilities - Softcover

Flexer, Robert; Baer, Robert; Luft, Pamela; Simmons, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132658119 ISBN 13: 9780132658119

Publisher: Pearson, 2012

Synopsis

Transition Planning for Secondary Students with Disabilities, 4/e  is a comprehensive and practical resource for anyone involved in dealing with and meeting the transition needs of students with disabilities. The authors describe the varied transition needs readers are likely to encounter in their work and provide a succinct look at the options and career paths potentially available. They cover implementing transition systems, creating a transition perspective of education, and promoting movement to postschool environments.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

In this comprehensive, practical guide to understanding the varied transition needs of students with disabilities—and the potential options and career paths in transition education—pre- and in-service teachers and professionals get the support they need to develop and implement transition activities and programs. The text organizes transition topics around four essential elements of transition and a backward planning process. In this edition, a new organization and four new chapters improve the focus and readability for the student new to transition.

 

This new Fourth Edition features:

 

A look at assessments for developing self-determined postschool goals, supporting the goals through courses of study and transition services, and implementing IEP goals toward postschool goal refinement and completion in themodel presented for the transition IEP.

 

A framework for backwards and person-centered planning and self-determination presented in the new chapter, “Developing Postschool Goals”.

 

Strategies for IEP goal development presented in a new chapter, “Writing IEP Goals for Transition Teaching”.

 

Better organization of coordinator information by the “Kohler Taxonomy” in the revised chapter, “Transition Coordination”.

 

A new chapter, “Identifying Courses of Study”, which more clearly aligns transition with standards-based curriculum. 

 

A clear look at major ideas, concepts, and strategies through the Critical Points features that provide summaries in line with each major chapter heading.

 

Opportunities for students to see the concepts in action through the text’s diverse case studies and applications that illustrate organizing concepts and provide tips or recommendations for practice.

About the Author:

Robert Baer is the Director of the Transition Center at Kent State University.  In this role, he currently directs personnel preparation, demonstration, and research projects related to transition, including Ohio’s Longitudinal Transition Study (OLTS) of Special Education Outcomes, TTW endorsement training, career-technical teacher training, and campus work and college experience programs for youth and young adults with disabilities.  Dr. Baer has more than 35 years in the special education and has directed residential programs for adults with disabilities, supported employment programs for young adults with disabilities, and research for the Ohio Department of Education.

 

Pamela Luft is an Associate Professor of Special Education at Kent State University in Ohio and the Director of the Deaf Education program.  She received her M.Ed. in Deaf Education from McDaniel College, her M.S. in Technology for Persons with Disabilities from the Johns Hopkins University, and her Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Special Education.  She worked in public, special day, and residential schools as a teacher, behavior specialist, career coordinator, and program administrator before getting her doctorate.  Her research and grant projects have focused on transition services and rehabilitation services for the deaf. She has published on issues related to transition, technology employment of persons with disabilities, special education policy, and instructional practices.

 

 

Pamela Luft is an Associate Professor of Special Education at Kent State University.  She worked for 15 years with D/HH students across all school settings and age groups. Her research and grant projects have focused on transition services and rehabilitation services for the deaf, language, and literacy.

 

 

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0132658119
• ISBN 13: 9780132658119
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 400