Transition Planning for Older Students: Preparing for Life after High School
The process of education is meant to prepare a child for becoming a productive adult. For typical students, this means going on to a job or further education. For struggling learners, there is additional planning and work involved in preparing them for the future. This workshop provides parents practical strategies for planning the transition to adulthood for students with disabilities, whether they will live independently or continue living at home. Learn how you, as parent, function as both advocate and coach in the areas of goal-setting, building life skills, fostering independence, exploring community engagement and creating a support network. Start now to prepare your pre-teen or teenager for a meaningful and fulfilling life after high school.
Stephanie Buckwalter is a veteran homeschool mom of over twenty years with five children who have a variety of learning profiles, including gifted, mild learning struggles, and nonverbal with moderate intellectual disability. To improve outcomes for her diverse learners, she combined her knowledge of various homeschooling methods with training and research in neurological development and right-brain teaching methods. Her innovations include Visual Phonograms, the Three E Method, and Spell As U Go, a spelling and communication program for nonverbal students. Stephanie has a BA in literary studies and has written books for the school library market, encyclopedia entries, and now publishes homeschool curriculum and resources at Adapted Home Education. She is an educational consultant specializing in students who don’t read, write, speak or do math, and those stuck perpetually in elementary school.
