What’s in it for me?

Take 5 minutes in your group to brainstorm ways that participating in your IEP is beneficial

What are 3 Guarantees of IDEA? Free Appropriate Public Education

FAPE is an acronym for free, appropriate, public education

Sections of a Transition IEP Future Planning Special Instructional Factors Personal Profile Postsecondary Transition Postsecondary Transition Services Measurable Annual Goals Description of Specially Designed

Services Transportation Nonacademic and Extracurricular

Activities

Future Planning

A summary of your skills and interests

Emphasis on postsecondary educational goals and outcomes

Should include coursework, employment, and career programs

Special Instructional Factors

Communication access needs and accommodations

Assistive technology needs

Self-advocacy and personal responsibility skills

Personal Profile

Anything the education team needs to know to provide communication access and adequate services

Resource: MyGAP Personal Profile and Accommodations Letter

Postsecondary Transition

A statement of transition service needs that focus on your course of study

Resource: MyGAP Transition Checklist and MyGAP Transition Planner to help identify skills that still need to be learned and services to address learning them

Postsecondary Transition Services Includes:

Measurable Postsecondary Goals Courses of Study Number of Annual Goals Services and Activities necessary to support

goals Duration Agencies

Resource: Use a combination of the MyGAP Transition Checklist, MyGAP Transition Planner, MyGAP Self Assessment, and MyGAP Personal Learning Planner to complete goals

Measurable Annual Goals

Will vary depending on each student’s goals

Resource: Use the MyGap Self-Advocacy Competency Checklist to create annual goals depending on area of need

Specially Designed Services

Resource: Refer to MyGAP documents Transition Planner Personal Learning Planner Self-Advocacy Competency Checklist Personal Profile and Accommodations

Letter

Transportation

Resource: Use the MyGap Personal Profile and Accommodations Letter to notify the bus driver or other transportation services of your hearing loss

Nonacademic and Extracurricular

Activities What accommodations listed in your IEP are needed to afford an equal opportunity to participate in school sponsored extracurricular services and activities?

Resource: MyGAP Personal Profile and Accommodations Letter

Your IEP is a Contract

A written legal document between all team members

YOU are a key member of the team and You need to help with developing the IEP