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Welcome to the future home of the New York State Transition Services Professional Development Support Center (PDSC)

School districts are required, under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to provide each student with a disability with appropriate transition services to assist each student to meet his/her post-secondary goals for living, learning and working. With the addition of the Transition PDSC, NYS now has a comprehensive system of State and regionally-based professional development support to school districts needing to improve transition planning and transition-related instructional services and supports for students with disabilities.

The Transition Services PDSC will provide a web-based resource for transition services and planning (currently known as TransQUAL) for all school districts. This web-based tool is based on five quality indicators of effective transition planning: student development, student-focused planning, program structure, family involvement and interagency collaboration. The new Transition Services PDSC will improve the functionality and quality of the current TransQUAL tool, and will create a new website to house not only TransQUAL, but other technical assistance information to assist school districts to improve transition programs and services. In addition, the Transition Services PDSC will host an on-line forum for school districts to share transition improvement activities with other school districts in the State.

The PDSC will also provide ongoing professional development support to the State’s Transition Specialists within the Regional Special Education Technical Assistance Support Centers (RSE-TASC). Through the RSE-TASC transition specialists, school districts can access technical assistance and professional development on a variety of topics related to effective transition planning and services, including but are not limited to:

• individualized education program (IEP) development relating to transition planning;
• student exit summaries;
• transition assessments;
• work-based learning;
• self-advocacy/self determination; and
• partnering with community agencies.

To contact the Transition Specialist(s) in your area, please see www.emsc.nysed.gov/specialed/techassist/rsetasc/tslist.htm.

Over the next year, this webpage will change dramatically, offering a complete toolkit for educational programs to learn about transition and career development, engage in collaborative planning, share successful strategies and documentation and involve other visitors to this site in meaningful discussions. In the mean time, go to www.transqual.org for our current array of transition resources."

Webinar Resources

Websites

• TransQUAL Online
• New York State Career Zone
• Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities (VESID), New York State Education Department
• NYS VESID Special Education
• NYS Department of Labor
• United States Office for Civil Rights
• United States Department of Labor
• TransQUAL Online Secondary Indicator Survey

Transition Times Newsletter

• Agency Involvement in Transition: Agencies Reach out to Assist Those in Need of Services (Summer 2007)
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• Achieving Postsecondary Access and Success (Spring 2006)
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• Tools and Resources for Transition (Summer 2006)
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State Memos and Resources

• NYS Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities
• State IEP
• Part 200-201 (December, 2005)
• IDEA Part B State Performance Plan 2005-1010 (December 2005)
• School District Schedule for Data submission for Federal Indicators 7,8,11,12,13,14
• Power Point on IDEA 2004, NYSED
• U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)

VESID Grant RFP Proposal #06-033
Model Transition Program
Web site Resources

• Cornell University, TransQUAL Online Secondary Indicator Survey
• New York State Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities (VESID)
• NYS VESID Special Education Transition
• NYS VESID Individual Education Plan Guide
• U.S. Department of Education
• U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences,
  What Works Clearinghouse
• U.S. Department of Education,
  Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
  Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
• The Education Trust
• The Education Trust - College Results
• NYS Department of Labor
• NYS Department of Labor Career Zone
• U.S. Department of Labor

Other Resources

• Standards Integration Trainers Site

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