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Transition coordinator Pat McPartland tracked down former special needs students of hers several years out of high school and found that many were either under-or unemployed, some were unmarried with children, others had started but dropped out of technical schools and colleges, and most continued to struggle with the transition to adult life.
This book responds to this crisis by diagramming a new approach to the assessment and instruction of students in an ongoing life skill and transition program. McPartland looks at the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which mandates that students with special needs be in possession of basic life skills when they graduate from high school, and suggests ways to meet these goals.
