The National Center on Secondary Education and Transition E-News highlights these web sites in its April newsletter.

Transition Services for Students with Disabilities
This site is sponsored by the Virginia Department of Education and provides information on transition, transition resources, college planning resources, school to work resources, and much more.

Link: http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/sped/transition/

Positive Behavior Supports (Fact Sheets)
Nine fact sheets, published by the Beach Center, are available that cover such topics as: Discipline and Punishment, Functional Assessment of Behavior, How To Encourage Desirable Behavior in People with Developmental Disabilities, How To Find a Behavior Specialist, How To Put the Good in Good Night, How To Reduce Challenging Behavior in Children with Developmental Disabilities, School-Wide Positive Behavioral Support Systems, Teachers and Positive Behavioral Support, and Ten Ways To Support A Person with a Challenging Behavior.

Link: http://www.bridges4kids.org/PBS/PBS.html

Student Learning Strategies(National Center on Secondary Education Web Topic)
This NCSET Web topic explores strategies students can learn to help them become more independent, successful learners. Includes an introduction, frequently asked questions, related research, emerging practices, Web sites, and additional resources.

Link: http://ncset.org/topics/learning/default.asp?topic=17

IDEA (PL 105-17)

www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/IDEA/index.html
Provides information regarding the regulations of IDEA and the Amendments of 1997. It also provides specific articles, memos, and letters, speeches and general information regarding IDEA.

Thomas-Legislative Information of the Internet: http://thomas.loc.gov/
Has a Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ’s) section which for example gave information about how to search on THOMAS. When using this site for the first time see this section. This site provides information on legislation, Congressional record text, and committee information.

Workforce Investment Act (PL 105-220): www.education-to-careers.com/wrw.htm
This site provides a description of the  Workforce investment act and additional links to other sites for related topics.

Division on Career Development and Transition: http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/sped/dcdt/
Provides information regarding legislation  and publications affecting individuals with disabilities and links to other resources

University of Maryland Outreach-18-21 year old programs: http://www.education.umd.edu/oco/resources/resources_factsheets.html
This site will give you information on developing programs for students 18-21 and links to other important sites

Technical Assistance

http://www.dssc.org/frc/ta.htm Within the Office of Special Education Programs, the FRC coordinates the Special Education Technical Assistance and Dissemination (TA&D) Network..

The National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET) coordinates national resources, offers technical assistance, and disseminates information related to secondary education and transition for youth with disabilities in order to create opportunities for youth to achieve successful futures.

Regional Resource Center Links:

http://www.wested.org/cc/html/centers.htm  For Technical assistance in your state you can view this site to determine additional resources in your area.

Region V - Alabama: http://www.sedl.org/secac/ The Southeast Comprehensive Assistance Center (SECAC) is one of fifteen regional technical assistance centers

Region VII-Indiana: http://region7.ou.edu/resources.html
Technical Assistance Center

Region IV North Carolina and South Carolina: http://www.ael.org/

Region III Ohio: http://ceee.gwu.edu