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Transition your student to adulthood:

“The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.” Frank A. Clark. Transition your student to adulthood:. LEARN TO LET GO. During High School. Do you wake your student up each morning?. Do you call their teachers when they forget something?.

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Transition your student to adulthood:

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  1. “The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.” Frank A. Clark

  2. Transition your student to adulthood: LEARN TO LET GO

  3. During High School

  4. Do you wake your student up each morning? Do you call their teachers when they forget something? Do you sit with them while they do their homework? Do you do papers for them?

  5. Start the Transition to adulthood by slowly allowing your child to try things on his/her own!

  6. “But then my son/daughter will feel (substitute adjective)”: • Frustrated • Hurt • Humiliated • Unsuccessful • Hopeless

  7. Then I will feel those things as well!

  8. So what can you do? • Get accommodations for the SATs or ACT • Make sure your student takes all the math courses that he/she can and gets writing experience • Make sure you have talked with Department of Rehabilitative Services • Look for summer activities like study sessions and community college programs for disabled students

  9. Let your child start to transition to adulthood • Let your child start advocating at IEP meetings • Let them do their own work • Let them do chores

  10. Transition after High School: CSM • Realistic expectations made us conclude CSM was a good • choice • Transportation was an issue, we made it work

  11. Learn to let go at CSM CSM staff are great: warm, caring, professional. Your son or daughter is in great hands!

  12. The ADA office is not giving your son/daughter an IEP

  13. This is harder than we thought! • My son’s teacher required 9 papers! • Work requirements are different • Structure is different, plan time differently

  14. Letting Go continued… My son must handle his own issues at school. The ADA office will help, but not do things for him.

  15. After CSM? Although terrified, I must continue to let go CSM does a great job with the transition That is because they helped him do it himself

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