Guiding Your Teenager with Special Needs Through the Transition from School to Adult Life: Tools for Parents
Mary Korpi | 2007-10-15 00:00:00 | Jessica Kingsley Pub | 144 | Parenting
Guiding Your Teenager with Special Needs through the Transition from School to Adult Life is an excellent resource for both parents and educators who support young adults as they exit the special education school system. Concisely and accessibly written, the content is applicable to people with different types of challenges and levels of ability.
The first part of the book explains how families can adapt everyday routines in order to encourage the development of essential life skills the child will need as he matures. It outlines the application of person-first planning in all aspects of the child's life.
The second section is an overview of adult programs including: adult day programs, college, employment and residential and recreational opportunities. It includes critical information regarding eligibility requirements, financial support and legal concerns.
The information in this book will facilitate the design of an effective transition plan that will help teenagers develop realistic adult goals that support their unique interests and skills.
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This book is very well written for special parents from an author who has extensive firsthand experience. It gives excellent insight about all the steps which the parents have to navigate in the school and public system to help their children to become well integrated into the society.
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If she's trying to do a transition plan for teens, she needed to have worded the book differenty.
In the current form, she's directly talking to parents--who can no longer be the center of whatever transition plan is being written up. A transition plan is legally required to be about the future of the person with a disability themselves. And so we needed to be the ones who were addressed. But the book suffers from additional problems.
While her 'close guiding' approach could work for people with severe disabilities needing supervision, the inclusion of information on college leaves me wondering. What is she really trying to accomplish?
Since college students legally must be their own advocates, that section leads me to believe that post-secondary disability law's critical differences from special education is especially not understood. Parents cannot guide their kids in college because there is no yearly planning conference..etc at any college campus. Her ignorance does a horrible diservice to people who will sincerely turn to this book as a resource. Both laws cover disability, but the two have some very important differences from each other.
Future editions of this book need to either pare down the audience she is trying to address. Or they must pare down the options which people could transition to, and conceede the provided list is partial, based on her expertise. When you write books about subjects which you fail to research, myself and others with field experience do see right through.
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Guiding Your Teenager With Special Needs through the Transition from School to Adult Life provides insight and practical suggestions for parents, educators and members of the community at large. This book is a reminder to each of us that teaching basic life skills to children with and without diagnosed delays or disabilities, as well as planning for their future, can never begin too early. John and Mary Brown
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