What is Secondary Transition?

Secondary Transition is a bridge of support services that enables a student to reach their postsecondary goals for employment, education/training and (as appropriate) independent living skills. As mandated in the reauthorization of IDEA (2004), this bridge of support is created by the IEP team based upon current and age-appropriate transition assessments of the student's strengths, needs, preferences and interests. Secondary transition begins for all students who have an IEP by at least age 16 and continues until the student has graduated from high school, exited from Special Education, or reached age 21.