Transition2Life: Transition Skills for Becoming a Successful Adult (Daily Living Skills - Susan Traugh) Paperback – March 30, 2026

Transition 2 Life (T2L) is a self-directed program providing mild- to moderately-affected special needs students with the skills they need to transition into adulthood, and you the curriculum you need to meet federal mandates and Indicator 13 requirements. It is highly appropriate for independent study and distance learning and provides a full-year or 3-year transition program covering all major aspects of transition requirements (including a portfolio that parents/students can use after graduation) in one handy notebook.This 278-page curriculum can be used to meet transition goals during an intensive school year or throughout the high school transition years. It has been used with students as young as fourteen and into the middle twenties with positive results. The workbook is written on a high-third/low-fourth-grade level with lots of airy pages and short, direct lessons followed by a comprehension quiz or real-world activity, yet it is still respectful of teenage maturity.The units and suggested resources, including transcripts, IDEA laws, IEPs, voter registration cards, and ATM cards, etc., provide students with an individual resource portfolio that will guide them through college, employment, or young adulthood while meeting federal standards for transition services and provide you with undisputable evidence that you have provided comprehensive transition education. ITP goals have been provided for each unit. This starting point gives you a basis on which to write unique individualized goals and use them in annual IEPs to meet transition goals. Parent verification letters are provided with each unit to keep parents apprised of your efforts to meet transition goals, and suggestions are provided to parents to help them enhance their child’s life skills learning and support them as they begin providing help to their child as a life coach. Grading sheets are included with each unit, and an answer guide for all units is provided in the teacher’s manual.Units include:Transition Planning: Defining my Dream Life; What Life Skills do I Have?; Briggs-Myers; Career Aptitude; Career Theory; Analyzing my Data; Where do I Fit?My Rights and Responsibilities: Voting; Self-Advocacy; Knowing How to Get What I Need; Learning to Ask; My Responsibilities as an Adult; Decision-Making; Goal-Setting; What if I Can't?; Documenting my DisabilityCollege & Post-Secondary Education: Types of Schools; Paying for College; Applying for FAFSA; How to get Scholarships; Understanding ABLE AccountsObtaining my TranscriptsCareers: First Impressions; Answering the Phone; Writing a Resume; References; Cover Letters; Addressing Envelopes; Completing Job Applications; Passing Computer Honesty Tests; Interviewing; Job Shadowing; Internet PresenceCommunity Resources and Adult Living: What to Carry; Emergency Numbers; Emergency SOS; Safe Location Sharing; Interacting with my Social Squares; Lures; Safe Words; 3 Steps to Stay Safe; Services Offered at Community Resources; My Service NeedsFinancial Literacy: Bank Accounts; ATM Cards; Writing a Check; Budgets; How to Pay Bills; Wants vs. Needs; Buying Insurance; Other Money Issues; Credit Cards; Your FICO ScoreHealth and Welfare: Protecting Health Information; HIPAA; My Health Team; Home Remedies; Using Websites; Talk to a Nurse; Is it Serious?--How to Tell; Mental Health Issues; Drug and Alcohol IssuesNext Steps: Provides a portfolio of documents from all the previous units for students to use as a reference after graduation and for parents to use as a guide as they take over as "life-coach." Read more