With the extended school closures due to COVID-19 throughout the United States, students are having to learn in entirely new ways and facing challenges when it comes to learning during these unprecedented times. The Continuity of Learning resource database offers information, tools, and resources to help educators, parents and families, and related service providers meet the educational, behavioral, and emotional needs of children and youth with disabilities through remote and virtual learning.
This guide from the University of Kansas highlights the Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction (SDLMI), a model which supports youth with disabilities with goal setting...
This framework provides an overview of transition planning in Minnesota, highlights transition policy in the state, and provides guidance for transition professionals to collaborate as they...
This framework from Virginia Commonwealth University’s Center on Transition Innovations focuses on building the capacity of youth with disabilities and transition professionals to plan for...
Virginia Commonwealth University’s Center on Transition Innovations is a research and technical assistance center, focused on building the capacity of transition professionals to implement innovative...
This national technical assistance center, funded by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy, aims to improve employment outcomes for youth and...
The Center on Youth Voice and Youth Choice is a national youth resource center conducting research, advocacy, and interactive learning focused on Alternative to Guardianship...
This guide provides tools and reflection questions for families and youth as they begin and continue to engage in the transition process. Reflection questions in...
These six guides and accompanying videos provide families and educators of students with disabilities with policy-informed information about facilitation, mediation, written state complaints, due process...
This video follows the stories of several parents and self-advocates as they address questions and concerns about supporting youth with disabilities as they engage in...
This guide provides a policy overview of Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) services, and highlights eligibility requirements as mandated by IDEA and WIOA to participate in VR...
This online module focuses on the process of developing high-quality IEPs for students with disabilities. Key topics include the requirements for IEPs as outlines in...
This online module focuses on the transition process from high school to post-secondary settings. Key topics include individualized education program planning, engaging students in the...
This policy overview of the IEP process provides recommendations for families to partner with their schools to support their children through the transition process, including...
In this presentation from the 2023 OSEP Leadership and Project Directors’ Conference, presenters provide an example of a student’s use of the tool, share how...
Belonging is experienced when students are present, invited, welcomed, known, accepted, involved, supported, heard, befriended, and needed. This resource provides reflection questions to assist practitioners...
School should be a place of belonging for each and every student. Belonging is easy to affirm, but much harder to define. This research-based resource...
RSA published this final notification of interpretation to clarify current policy regarding the permissibility of using funds reserved for pre-employment transition services for auxiliary aids...
