Transition
Introduction
Children and families experience many transitions, large and small, over the years. Three predictable transitions occur when children reach school age, when they approach adolescence, and when they move from adolescence to adulthood. Other transitions include moving into new programs, working with new agencies and care providers, and making new friends. Transitions involve changes: adding new expectations, responsibilities, or resources, and letting go of others.
Please see the Transition page under Physicians and the Adolescent Transition page under Resources and Support for more information.
Transition Workbooks - Children's Medical Services Network
Health Care Transition Workbooks for Parents and Youth
Created by John Reiss, Ph.D. and Robert Gibson, MSOTR/L
and the Institute for Child Health Policy at the University
of Florida. Workbooks for ages 12-14 years, 15-17 years,
and 18 years and older.
www.cms-kids.com/CMSNetwork/transition.html
Young Adult Transition
The Washington State Adolescent Health Transition Project
Wonderful information and tools to assist families who have children or youth with special health care needs from birth through young adulthood. Funded by the Washington State Department of Health, Children with Special Health Care Needs Program.
www.depts.washington.edu/healthtr/index.html
The Center for Change in Transition Services, Seattle University
Web site provides special education teachers, directors, students and their families with resources, information and news regarding secondary special education and transition services.
www.seattleu.edu/ccts/index.asp
Special Needs Trusts: Planning for the Financial Future
Many children with disabilities will outlive their parents. Experts recommend that parents who have children with disabilities who will have a hard time being financially independent set up a special needs trust. Special needs trusts can give disabled adults a cushion while allowing them to take advantage of Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income.
www.nami.org/snep
Venture Program- Bellevue Community College, WA
This pilot program is the first degree program in America for students challenged with learning, cognitive, and intellectual disabilities. With an expanded curriculum of 52 separate courses, the college's Venture program now offers a 90-credit Associate in Essential Studies degree through which high-functioning individuals with learning, cognitive and intellectual disabilities can demonstrate mastery of an established body of knowledge and gain the
skills for lifetime success.
www.bcc.ctc.edu/venture
'Best Boy' and 'Best Man' Documentaries
'Documentary filmmaker Ira Wohl spent three years following his cousin Philly Wohl, a 52-year-old retarded man. Philly's parents Pearl, 72, and Max, 78, have cared for and sheltered him all his life, but now they must help him to become self-sufficient in preparation for the day when he will be forced to care for himself. The film follows Philly as he first ventures out into the world alone and meets with psychologists and counselors at a training center. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Ira Wohl's BEST BOY remains one of the most beloved and critically-acclaimed docs of all time. Wohl's story centers around his 52-year-old cousin Philly, who has been mentally retarded since birth and has never lived apart from his parents, Max and Pearl Wohl. Now elderly, ailing, and concerned about Philly's future after their deaths, the Wohls are prompted by Ira to begin teaching their son self-reliance. As Philly moves from summer camp to training center and finally to an independent group home, BEST BOY becomes a stark but tender portrait of a family confronting life's impermanence and change. The DVD edition features Wohl's follow-up film BEST MAN, which revisits Philly 20 years later as he continues to live on his own.
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