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Transition Tools and Guides

Ontario

A Guide to Transition Planning - Dufferin and Wellington Counties and the Regions of Halton, Peel and Waterloo

Attendant Services Fact Sheets - March 2011

Best Practice Guidelines - "The Best Journey to Adult Life" for Youth with Disabilities: An Evidence-based Model and Best Practice Guidelines for the Transition to Adulthood for Youth with Disabilities

Brain Injury Family Intervention Adolescent Version Order Form

Brainweb - Online Community for Ontario Professionals

Community Resource Directory for Children and Adolescents with ASD and their Families in Toronto - 2008

Connections - Developmental Services Toronto

Good 2 Go Transition Program Readiness Checklists - Sick Kids

Growing Up Ready Timetables and Checklists - Bloorview Kids Rehab

My Health Passport Online - Sick Kids Hospital

My Life, My Decisions - a guide for planning a meaningful life

Parents: Questions to consider in advance of a workplace experience

Pathways To Post-Secondary: A Transition Guide for People with Disabilities - Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning and the University of Guelph-Humber

Post Secondary Transition Planner for All Disabilities - Canadore College North Bay

Teachers: Questions to consider in advance of a workplace experience

Teaching Special Needs Students

Transition Checklist for Students with Disabilities in High School - Child Development Resource Connection Peel

Transition Planning - Ontario Ministry of Education

Transition Planning Resource Guide - Ontario Association for Families of Children with Communication Disorders

 

Canada

Effective Transition for Students with Intellectual or Multiple Disabilities

Sex Education for Youth With Disabilities

Transition Planning Checklist - British Columbia's Children's Hospital

Transition Planning for Students with Disabilities - Government of Alberta

Transition Planning Guides - Ministry of Children and Family Development British Columbia

Transition Planning Worksheet - Nova Scotia Department of Education page 31

Youth Health Publications - British Columbia's Children's Hospital

ACYI Transition Planning Protocol for Youth with Disabilties - Alberta Children and Youth Initiative

 

United States

Creating Opportunities for Youth with Disabilities to Achieve Successful Futures - National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET)

Guideposts for Success

Healthy and Ready to Go   Tools and Checklists

Health Care Transitions - The Institute for Child Health Policy at the University of Florida, John Reiss, PHD

Life Journey Through Autism: A Guide for Transition to Adulthood Arlington, Virginia

Parenting Post-Secondary Students with Disabilities: Becoming the Mentor, Advocate, and Guide Your Young Adult Needs

Publications related to Education and Transition - Institute for Community Inclusion

Scoop Essentials: Transition, It's a Brave New World - disabilityscoop

The Adolescents and Adults Project - Smoothing the Transition to Successful Adulthood - The National Fragile X Foundation

The Road Ahead: Transition to Adult Life

Transition Program Webinars - Parent Educational Advocacy Training Centre - Virginia, USA

Transition Training - Florida Developmental Disabilities Council

What does Health Have to Do with Transition? Everything!- National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET)

 

International

Principles of transition - The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne

Transition:Getting it right for young people - UK Dept of Health

Transitions to adulthoodfor youth with disabilities: Evidence from the literature - International Encyclopedia of Rehabilitation