La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § LVII-527

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section LVII-527 - Transition

A. Students to be Considered

1. All students with disabilities who are enrolled in special education, who have a transition services page on the IEP, and who are expected to exit the local education agency at the end of the school year.

B. Definitions

1. Individualized Transition Services Page. The first page of the IEP lists the action steps that a person will need to accomplish in order to live, work, and recreate as an adult as independently as possible. It must be written by the time the student is age 16, or earlier if appropriate, and revised annually until the student exits the local education agency. Participants of the transition services page include the student, family members, and representatives of other agencies responsible for providing or paying for transition services.

2. Action Steps. Activities designed to promote movement from school to post school activities, including post-secondary education, vocational training, integrated employment, continuing and adult education, adult services, independent living, or community participation

C. Steps to Applying Transition Criterion

1. Annual IEP

a. The IEP team identifies the transition criterion as one possible area under which the student may qualify for the ESYP. This criterion is for students who have a transition services plan and who are expected to exit the local education agency at the end of the school year.

b. Local education agency transition services action steps are addressed in the IEP objectives. The IEP team discusses different ways of collecting data and strategies for team functioning.

2. Ongoing Data Collection/Screening

a. Throughout the school year, the teacher/instructional personnel monitors the transition services page and corresponding objectives on the IEP.

b. Prior to the ESYP screening date, the teacher/instructional personnel reviews the student's transition services page to determine whether there are any local education agency action steps which will not be completed by the end of the normal school year.

3. Is the student eligible for ESYP?

a. Questions

i. Are there local education agency transition services page action steps that will not be completed by the end of the school year?

ii. Does the student need transition services during the summer months?

b. Review Student Performance/Progress

i. What do the data indicate? Is the student completing all local education agency action steps and corresponding objectives? Are there some local education agency action steps and corresponding objectives that are not complete?

c. Decision Making

i. The student is eligible for ESYP if s/he is in need of service(s) to complete action steps that are the responsibility of the local education agency.

4. Required Documentation

a. A list of the incomplete action steps and corresponding objectives that are the responsibility of the local education agency.

b. Information describing the student's need for transition services during the summer months;

c. Transition Documentation Form found on file at the department.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § LVII-527

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 30:2004 (September 2004), amended LR 31:916 (April 2005).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:1941 et seq.