Transition Planning for High School Students with IEPs
Transition Planning for High School Students with IEPs In the state of Washington, students must have a transition plan driving their IEP beginning no later than age 16 (or when determined by the IEP team, or when the student enters high school), through age 21. This is also the federal requirement. In Virginia, where I taught a few years ago, however, the age of transition planning is no later than 14. The big idea is that transition planning is not a process that only involves the school-based team. There should be family input, student input, and an interagency linkage. Across all of the states where I have lived and worked, there are many different agencies to which schools link families.