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Special education · Free tool
Free tool · Special education

Transition planning, by age

What to focus on from middle school to age 21 for students with IEPs: self-advocacy, the transition plan required by age 16, college disability services, and the transfer of rights.

General information about federal law, not legal advice. Caveat advisors are not attorneys. States add their own rules and timelines; your school must give you your state's parent rights notice (procedural safeguards).

Want help with this part? Your Caveat advisor writes the transition questions with you, checks the plan each year and stays with your student into college.

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This tool is general information, not legal, tax or financial advice. Each college decides admission, aid and how credit counts, and requirements change; check each college's own pages. Examples are examples, not promises. Caveat Academic Services is an independent college preparation company. Students do all of their own work.