-Â NASET Webinar Featuring: Dr. Audrey A. Trainor-
Lost in Transition
Supporting Multilingual Students with Disabilities Through the Post-Secondary Transition Process
Join Us Monday June 15th @ 7PM EST
Meet Dr. Audrey A. Trainor:
Dr. Audrey A. Trainor is a Professor of Special Education and Content Director of Programs in Special Education at NYU Steinhardt, where her research focuses on equity in special education with a specific emphasis on postsecondary transitions for adolescents with disabilities - including multilingual young people. From 2017 to 2022, she served as principal investigator for an IES-funded study on postsecondary success for English Language Learners with disabilities, which included research with high school and postsecondary students across New York City schools. She is the author of Transition by Design: Improving Equity and Outcomes for Adolescents with Disabilities (Teachers College Press) and a past president of the Council for Exceptional Children's Division on Career Development and Transition. Before her academic career, she spent nearly a decade as a special education high school teacher.
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Why Attend?
Federal law requires every student with a disability to have a transition plan in their IEP by age 16 - covering post-secondary education, employment, and independent living. For most students, this process is already underdeveloped. For multilingual students navigating both special education and English Learner services, it is often a formality on paper that fails them entirely in practice.
The research is clear: multilingual students with disabilities leave high school with worse employment outcomes, lower post-secondary enrollment rates, and less access to independent living supports than any comparable peer group. This is not a student problem. It is a systems problem - and it starts in the transition planning process.
Dr. Trainor has spent decades studying exactly where and why this breaks down, and what educators can actually do about it. This session brings that research directly to your screen with strategies you can bring back to your IEP team immediately.
In this session, participants will learn:
- What the data says about post-school outcomes for multilingual students with disabilities - employment, college enrollment, and independent living - and why the gaps are so persistent
- Where transition planning breaks down for students receiving both special education and English Learner services, and how to close the coordination gap between those two teams
- How to write transition goals that actually reflect a student's future - not just compliance language - when language barriers and cultural assumptions shape what teams think is possible
- Practical strategies for meaningful family engagement during transition planning when multilingual families have limited trust in or experience with the IEP process
- How to connect multilingual students with disabilities to the right post-secondary resources - vocational rehabilitation, community agencies, and college supports - before they age out of special education
- What identity-informed transition planning looks like in practice and how to use it to build student agency and self-determination into the IEP process
All registrants will have access to the recording and attendees will receive a certificate of attendance for professional development.
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