Resources: Materials

Forms

Transition Assessment Information Gathering Form

Transition Assessment Information Gathering Form: Example

Transition Assessment Checklist

Indicator 13 Checklist Form A - WA State Form

Indicator 13 Checklist Form A- Instructions

IEP- Course Substitution(s)

Summary of Academic Achievement & Functional Performance

IEP - WA State Form

Assessment

Ansell-Casey Life Skills Assessment (ACLSA)
The ACLSA is an evaluation of youth independent living skills. It consists of statements about life skills that the youth and his/her caregivers complete. All assessments and the scored reports are free of charge.

Assessing Students with Significant Disabilities for Supported Adulthood: Exploring Appropriate Transition Assessments
This PowerPoint presentation addresses appropriate transition assessments for students with significant disabilities. It was created by Dr. Mary E. Morningstar and Mary Pearson from the University of Kansas and was presented at the Division on Career Development and Transition (DCDT) Conference in Milwaukee, WI in October 2008.
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Career Clusters
Free Career Cluster – Plans of Study; free Career Clusters – Knowledge and Skills Charts; free Career Clusters – Interest Survey Activity.

Career Planning Begins With Assessment
A Guide for Professionals Serving Youth with Educational and Career Development Challenges; youth service practitioners will find information on selecting career-related assessments, determining when to refer youth for additional assessment, and additional issues such as accommodations, legal issues, and ethical considerations.

Magellan Career Assessment Program
Magellan uses 9 assessments and performance-based surveys to measure 12 interest areas and 27 criterion-referenced factors based on the U.S. Department of Labor's "Revised Handbook for Analyzing Jobs." Magellan's academic skills assessment is based on field-proven assessment software.

Transition Assessment: The BIG Picture
Good assessment is the basis for meaningful planning for students, families, and schools as they consider transition needs and needed transition services in the IEP process.

WorkKeys
WorkKeys is a job skills assessment system measuring real-world skills. WorkKeys connects work skills, training, and testing for education and employers, responds to the requirements of federal programs and legislation, supports economic and workforce programs and is the basis for the National Career Readiness Certificate.

Temperament Surveys

Keirsey Temperament Sorter and Temperament Theory, Keirsey Character Sorter, information about personality, character,
www.keirsey.com/

The Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey is a self-report inventory designed to measure normal personality and temperament.
www.pearsonassessments.com/tests/gzts.htm

Interest Inventories

The following links have been selected to give quick access to several career interest inventories.

The Career Key™ gives you professional help you in choosing a career, making a career change, and choosing a college major or training program.

SkillsOne.com

Career Decisions: Self Assessment

Temperament Sorter II
An Interest Inventory designed for career and personal

Guidance Materials & Interest Inventories
Similar to traditional interest inventories.

Dropout Prevention and Intervention

America's Promise Alliance
With more than 300 national partners, America's Promise Alliance is devoted to improving the lives of young people. Together we ensure young people receive the Five Promises they need to graduate high school prepared for success.

Cognitive behavioral interventions: An effective approach to help students with disabilities stay in school
This publication is a practice guide that provides educators with basic information and strategies for implementing cognitive-behavioral interventions in the classroom.

Evidence-Based Dropout-Prevention Programs (NDPC-SD)
The National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities is committed to identifying evidence-based programs and disseminating them to stakeholders. For a list of these programs click on the link above.

What Works Clearinghouse for Dropout Prevention
The WWC offers a range of publications that evaluate school and community-based dropout prevention interventions and instructional strategies for middle and/or high schools. Reviewed interventions and strategies are designed to help students stay in school and/or complete school and may include services and activities that mitigate factors impeding progress in school.

Planning

Career Cruising
Career Cruising is an interactive career resource designed for people of all ages to find the right career, explore different career options, or plan future education and training.

Career Planning Solutions
A self-administered system that measures both aptitude and interest through valid and reliable assessment tasks. The results are instrumental in helping an individual begin the career or educational planning process.

Career Solutions
Career Solutions Publishing Group develops classroom materials that focus on workplace ethics, work readiness, integration of academics and careers, and personal money management.

Career Key
Career Key is organized according to the three basic principles of good decision making:

Know yourself -- your strengths, values, personality, and skills.
Know your options. Think of as many alternatives as you can.
Make a good decision

Road to Self-Sufficiency: A Guide to Entrepreneurship for Youth with Disabilities
The Guide was developed to serve as a resource for organizations working with youth on career exploration and employment options, and policymakers who support youth programs through policy and practice. The Guide shows how entrepreneurship education can be implemented in programs and offers suggestions on how to introduce self-employment as an option for all youth, including youth with disabilities.

Occupational Outlook Handbook
The Occupational Outlook Handbook (08-09) is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. The Handbook is revised every two years.

Office of Disability Employment Policy
The Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) provides national leadership on disability employment policy by developing and influencing the use of evidence-based disability employment policies and practices, building collaborative partnerships, and delivering authoritative and credible data on employment of people with disabilities.
        1. Creating a Path to Employment
        2. Essential Skills to Getting a Job
        3. Shaping Tomorrow's Workforce

Person Centered Planning
This module provides information about person-centered planning (PCP) and the role it can play in transition planning. First, you will learn about why person-centered planning was developed. Next, PCP will be defined and the major features of all PCP methods will be described. Third, steps to implementing a PCP will be described. Finally, PCP applied to transition planning will be presented.

Planning Your Child’s Future Success – National Center for Learning Disabilities

Quintessential Careers
Career Resources Toolkit for Job-Seekers contains career development resources -- on every major job-search and career topic -- to help job-seekers find a better job or career in the Career Resources Toolkit.

Transition Planning for Students with Severe Disabilities
The following documents pertain to transition planning for students with severe disabilities:
1. Transition Planning & Students with Severe Disabilities (PowerPoint)
2. NSTTAC Examples & non-examples: Students with Severe Disabilities

Transition Services: Examples of Coordinated Set of Activities
This document includes sample activities/strategies in the following transition areas: Instruction, Community Experience, Employment, Related Services, Post-school and Adult Living Skills, Acquisition of Daily Living Skills, and Functional Vocational Evaluation. It has been adapted from Helping Educators, Parents and Other Stakeholders Understand: Post-school Outcomes, Course of Study and Coordinated Set of Activities by Ed O'Leary and Wendy Collison, 2002.

Self-determination & Student Directed Transition Planning

Select presentations from the Zarrow Center, University of Oklahoma, on self- determination and student-directed activities

Self-Determination and the AIR Self-Determination Assessments
The AIR assessments measure two broad components. Capacity refers to the student's knowledge, abilities, and perceptions that enable them to be self-determined. Opportunity refers to the student's chances to use their knowledge and abilities. The AIR Self-Determination Scale is available to use, free of charge.

Self-Determination for Middle and High School Students
This topic explores how self-determination, which results from the development of self-esteem, self-awareness, and other positive learning skills, helps children and teens learn to exercise personal control over their lives.

Student-directed Transition Planning
Lessons are designed to take the student through a process of gathering information from key members of the transition planning team. The process initiates a dialogue between the student, family members, and the teacher on issues regarding employment, postsecondary education and living arrangements for the student.

The Arc’s Self-Determination Scale (SDS) procedural guidelines
The Procedural Guidelines For The Arc’s Self-Determination Scale provides administration and scoring information for this 72-item assessment of self-determination for adolescents with disabilities. This manual provides a comprehensive discussion of self-determination and outlines use of the measure in research and applied settings.