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Iowa’s Online Transition Training

Iowa’s Online Transition Training. Connecting the Dots. Factors Effecting Transition in Iowa. Birth Mandate State Area Education Agencies Local Control. Birth Mandate State. Serving Infants and Toddlers Since 1976 Most Services offered in the Home or Child Care Setting.

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Iowa’s Online Transition Training

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  1. Iowa’s Online Transition Training Connecting the Dots January 2007

  2. Factors Effecting Transition in Iowa • Birth Mandate State • Area Education Agencies • Local Control

  3. Birth Mandate State • Serving Infants and Toddlers Since 1976 • Most Services offered in the Home or Child Care Setting

  4. Area Education Agencies • Intermediate Education Units • Ten AEAs

  5. Local Control • 99 Counties • 364 Local School Districts

  6. Iowa’s Part C System • Early ACCESS • Iowa Department of Education is the Lead Agency • Signatory Parties: Iowa Department of Public Health, Iowa Department of Human Services, & Child Health Specialty Clinics

  7. Data • File review, Fall, 2004 • 68% documented transition steps • 46% transition conferences in timely manner

  8. Initiatives Addressing Transition • Guidance Papers for Grantees • Transition Toolbox for Parents • Training Regarding Exit Codes • Connecting the Dots

  9. Guidance Papers • Release of Records • Records and Confidentiality • Transition Planning Process • Federal Exit Codes • Decision Trees on Exit Codes • Timelines for Meeting Notices • Transition Planning Process Checklist

  10. Transition Toolbox • Developed by workgroup: PEC & Early ACCESS • Building your vision • Planning for transition • Transition plan meeting • Child’s evaluation • Constructing the IEP • Putting the IEP into action

  11. Exit Code Trainings • Inconsistencies • Iowa’s Communication Network • To be part of “Connecting the Dots”

  12. Early ACCESS Transition Training Connecting the Dots January 2007

  13. Connecting the Dots • Accessibility for service coordinators • 401 service coordinators • Travel time • Expertise of NCRRC • Cost effectiveness

  14. No road is long with good company.  ~Turkish Proverb

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