Transition Services Activity Areas

Instruction

Community Experiences

Employment

Post-School Adult Living

Daily Living Skills (if appropriate)

Functional Vocational Evaluation (if appropriate)

Instruction refers to the academic or vocational programs, services, and activities provided at the secondary level.  Examples include college preparatory classes, learning strategies courses.

Community Experiences are those activities needed to develop community participation.  Activities to develop community participation will include skills in one or more of the following domains:

Recreation/Leisure

Domestic

Community Access

Vocational

Examples include community-based instruction and community mobility training.

Employment refers to those activities which lead the student to employment as an adult.  These activities would include regular or special academic and vocational instruction, supported employment, on-the-job training, occupational training, and exploratory courses.

Post-school Living Objectives refer to those skills necessary for independent living, supported living, and community participation.  Examples include self-advocacy training, training in community living skills (e.g. recreation/leisure), and interpersonal relations.

Daily Living Skills refer to those skills a student needs to care for and manage his personal needs as independently as possible.  Examples include self-care training and daily living skills training.

Functional Vocational Evaluation is an evaluation which provides the student and teacher with information regarding the student's vocational interests and strengths and weaknesses.  Examples include vocational work experience or formal vocation/career exploration evaluation.

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