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CHECK OUT APPENDICES PAGES 109-136 FOR PRINTABLE, EASY-TO-READ ASSESSMENTS &

PLANNING TOOLS FOR EMPLOYABILITY AND COLLEGE.

The Ohio Center for Autism and Low Incidence Disabilities (OCALI) offer this

free publication to assist individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD),

their families and professionals in preparing for and moving through the

transition from being a high school student into adult life. This guide is

written in response to the tremendous challenges faced by young adults with ASD,

including arranging necessary employment supports and funding them, making

connectioms with adult service providers, and managing the often complex social

and behavioral challenges that often come with ASD.

The ASD Transition Guidelines is 136 pages long and has seven sections. Each

section provides information and resources that address the specific challenges

individuals with ASD and their families face during the transition process. The

seven sections are:

- Legal Issues and IEP Requirements Related to Transition

- Age-Appropriate Transition Assessment

- School Age Programming

- Employment

- Postsecondary Education

- Community Participation

- Supported Living

Each section has practical information laid out as follows:

1. General Information - concise background information and description of key

issues related to ASD and transition.

2. Implications for Students or Individuals with ASD (in all section except

legal)- presented in a set of tables. Each table describes characteristics of

ASD such as sensory, social, behavior and organization within the context of the

subject, such as age-appropriate transition assessment, with a corresponding

list of strategies or interventions that might be considered.

3. Tools and Resources - links to many free online resources that can be

downloaded or viewed.

4. Agency Collaboration and Funding - agencies that may support or extend

transition services with funding or experiences.

5. Activities or Interventions - ideas for activities that reinforce, develop or

extend the concepts discussed in the section

Appendices

The guide has four appendices, each of which are useful tools. Appendices A and

B are questionnaires to help young adults identify their needs and preferences

in selecting a place to work (Appendix A), and a college or other post-secondary

settings (Appendix . The other appendices are the educator version (Appendix

C), and parent/family version (Appendix D) of Ohio's Employability/Life Skills

Assessment for students with disabilities.

The information above is based on, and in several cases copied from full text of

the guide as viewed online on 12/12/2010 at

www.ocali.org/_archive/pdf_trans_guide/Trans_Guide.pdf