Pipeline Questions for VR

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Questions in the PipelineThink/ Pair /Share

Y N Do you know what services are being provided to infants and toddler with challenges?Y N Do you know whether young children with disabilities are served in integrated settings?

Y N Do you know how the elementary schools in your area are doing academically?Y N Do you know how the elementary schools in your area are doing behaviorally? Y N Do you know how many children are being referred for special education in the elementary years ?

Y N Do you know how the middle schools in your district are doing academically (test data and class performance)?

Y N Do you know what academic interventions are available? Y N Do you know the suspension data for your middle schools?Y N Do you know what career education takes place in middle school?Y N Do you know the attendance rates for your middle schools?

Y N Do you know if there a comprehensive transition process from middle to high school?Y N Can you describe your school’s approach to support in the ninth grade? Y N Do you have a picture of how many students with disabilities are on track for accumulating

graduation credit?Y N Do you have a picture of the career education and career assessment takes place in the HS years?Y N Do you have a picture of the transition experienced provided to students with IDD?Y N Do you know what wok experience and job coaching services are available to students with

disabilities?Y N Do special education and VR counselors talk together about common goals and common responsibilities? Y N Do you know the drop out rate for students with disabilities in your high school? Y N Do you know how graduates of special education programs are doing in post-secondary?Y N Do you know how graduates of special education programs are doing in employment?

How many ‘Yes’ responses did you have?

15-20 10-15 Less than 10

Your Best Advice….

• Given the new relationship between ED and VR in WIOA….what ‘background information’ should VR counselors be seeking as they work with districts?

• What questions should ED and VR explore together about practices ‘the pipeline’ and how they impact transition?