Iowa

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Iowas Online Transition Training
Connecting the Dots
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Factors Effecting Transition in Iowa

• Birth Mandate State
• Area Education Agencies
• Local Control

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Birth Mandate State

• Serving Infants and Toddlers Since 1976
• Most Services offered in the Home or Child Care
  Setting

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Area Education Agencies

• Intermediate Education Units
• Ten AEAs

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Local Control

• 99 Counties
• 364 Local School Districts

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Iowas 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

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Data

• File review, Fall, 2004
• 68 documented transition steps
• 46 transition conferences in timely manner

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Initiatives Addressing Transition

• Guidance Papers for Grantees
• Transition Toolbox for Parents
• Training Regarding Exit Codes
• Connecting the Dots

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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

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Transition Toolbox

• Developed by workgroup PEC Early ACCESS
• Building your vision
• Planning for transition
• Transition plan meeting
• Childs evaluation
• Constructing the IEP
• Putting the IEP into action

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Exit Code Trainings

• Inconsistencies
• Iowas Communication Network
• To be part of Connecting the Dots

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Early ACCESS Transition Training
Connecting the Dots
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Connecting the Dots

• Accessibility for service coordinators
• 401 service coordinators
• Travel time
• Expertise of NCRRC
• Cost effectiveness

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• No road is long
• with good company. 
• Turkish Proverb