Use the documents below to create your customized set of materials to ground your dialogue around Evidence-based Secondary Transition Practices in the implementation of IDEA 2004.

These materials are based on the information developed by the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC) and can be found on the Evidence-based Secondary Transition Practices web page. Click on What Works Transition Research Synthesis


Dialogue guides have 3 parts:

• Facilitator's Handbook to help you think about inviting others into a dialogue:

• Topical documents with content information to ground the dialogue, and

• Dialogue Starters, written by stakeholders, that identify questions to guide the dialogue.

Dialogue guides are written for general audiences that includes many different stakeholders.  Listed alphabetically under each guide, you will also find specific dialogue starters for local administrators, family, practitioners (teachers and related service providers), policymakers, and higher education.  

To begin, review the Dialogue Guide Facilitator Handbook, and then choose the topic and the appropriate dialogue guide starters for your audience

Please note:  The NSTTAC dialogue starters are taken from the directly from the executive summaries found at the NSTTAC What Works Transition Research Synthesis webpage.
The last item under each topic is a dialogue guide developed by the partners on the IDEA Partnership Collaborative Work on Secondary Transition NSTTAC Evidence-based Project.


You will find the following items under each Secondary Transition topic:  the Full Report, the Executive Summary, the NSTTAC Dialogue Starter and the IDEA Partnership Dialogue Guide.

• Functional Life Skills
  

  • Source document:
    A Systematic Review of the Effects of Curricular Interventions on the Acquisition of Functional Life Skills by Youth with Disabilities (Alwell & Cobb, 2006).
    Full Report
    Executive Summary
    
    

  • Implications for Practice: Should Life Skills Be Taught?
    This abstract is taken directly from the executive summary.
    
    

  • Functional Life Skills Dialogue Starter
    This dialogue starter  was written by stakeholders within the IDEA Partnership and NSTTAC working together.
    
    
    

• Social/Communication Interventions and Transition Outcomes for Youth with Disabilities
  

  • Source document:
    Social/Communication Interventions and Transition Outcomes for Youth with Disabilities: A Systematic Review (Alwell & Cobb, 2007).
    Full Report
    Executive Summary
    
    

  • What Conclusions Can Be Drawn From This Review Of Social/Communicative Interventions And Transition Outcomes For Youth With Disabilities When Compared With Prior Studies?
    This abstract is taken directly from the executive summary.
    
    

  • Social Communication Skills Dialogue Starter
    This dialogue starter was written by stakeholders within the IDEA Partnership and NSTTAC working together.
    
    

• Transition Planning
  

  • Source document:
    Transition Planning/Coordinating Interventions for Youth with disabilities: A Systematic Review (Cobb& Alwell, 2007).
    Full Report
    Executive Summary
    
    

  • What Can We Take Away From This Review on Transition Planning/Coordinating Interventions for Youth with Disabilities?
    This abstract is taken directly from the executive summary.
    
    

  • Transition Planning Dialogue Starter
    This dialogue starter was written by stakeholders within the IDEA Partnership and NSTTAC working together.
    
    

• Self- Determination
  

  • Source document:
    Self-Determination for Students with Disabilities: A Narrative Meta-Synthesis (Cobb, Lehmann, Newman-Gonchar, & Alwell, 2008).
    Full Report
    Executive Summary
    
    

  • What Can We Take Away From This Review on Self-Determination for Students with Disabilities?
    This abstract is taken directly from the executive summary of: Self-Determination for Students with Disabilities: A Narrative Meta-Synthesis.
    
    

  • Self-Determination for Students with Disabilities Dialogue Starter
    This dialogue starter was written by stakeholders within the IDEA Partnership and NSTTAC working together.