Age-Appropriate Transition Assessment (AATA) and Adult Life Visioning Toolkit

Awareness Activities

Awareness Activities from the Transition Basics Toolkit are your first steps. If you or any team members have not completed the AATA and Adult Life Visioning: Awareness Activities in the Transition Basics toolkit, begin with those now. Those activities are self-paced and prepare individuals to engage as a team. Once you have completed those, move to the next set of activities in Extend Your Knowledge.

Extend Your Knowledge

Reflect. Review your team discussion and notes from the Awareness Activities in the Transition Basics Toolkit. Focus on the first question in the Notetaking Form about Age-Appropriate Transition Assessment (AATA).

Watch. The InspirEd video (35 minutes) that discusses AATA and The AATA Planning Guide.

To-Do. Become familiar with how the AATA Planning Guide is organized by exploring each section.

Dialogue. As a team, discuss impressions of the OCALI AATA Planning Guide. Designate one team member to capture notes from the team discussion.

How can this tool be used for professional development?
How can this tool be used in the school’s AATA process?
What tools within the AATA Planning Guide are the most useful to you and your team?

To-Do. Review the steps in the Multi-Agency Transition Planning: Person Centered Thinking and Backwards Planning Guide. Notice that the steps are guiding a team through designing a plan for AATA for the youth.

Note how you can use the process and tools in the Backwards Planning Guide for your students and their team.

Dialogue. As a team, discuss impressions of the Multi-Agency Transition Planning: Person Centered Thinking and Backwards Planning Guide. Designate one team member to capture notes from the team discussion.

How is this process valuable as part of the AATA planning process?
How can the tools be used as part of your current AATA planning practices?

Developing a Vision

Reflect. Review your team discussion and notes from the Awareness Activities in the Transition Basics Toolkit. Focus on the second question in the Notetaking Form about Adult Life Visioning.

Share. Each team member can share the tool that seemed the most interesting or helpful and how that tool would be useful in your current activities and planning with youth and families.

As a team, discuss how you can use these tools to begin backwards planning for transition assessment highlighted in the AATA Planning Guide. The first step includes identifying a goal or vision and then choosing assessment, services, experiences, and more to build towards that vision or goal. Designate one team member to capture notes from the team discussion:

How can we use these tools to identify a student’s adult life goal or vision and begin backwards planning?
How can students and families express their adult life goal or vision?
Which tools should we try first at our school?

Apply Your Knowledge

Application. Congratulations! You have learned about the important process of planning for AATA and Adult Life Visioning. Your team should be familiar with some of the AATA tools and how to create an adult life vision. Let’s start applying what you have learned. You and your team should choose a student or group of students and consider completing the following with them in mind:

Using the Backwards Planning Guide and its tools, engage in Person Centered Thinking and Planning with a student and their team. This will allow you to set the groundwork around goals, activities, and benchmarks to ensure that the youth is achieving their best life.
Use the online AATA Planning Guide and its tools with one youth and work through it together to better understand how to use the online guide.
Learn more about unique assessment tools that can be included as part of AATA for youth that present unique profiles and learning needs. Each team member gathers information on tools from various sources.
Choose a visioning tool to begin using with all your students, families, and teams to help begin the planning process.
Write down your Next Steps on your Action Plan.

Ongoing Team Meetings

Sustainability

Review the results of the activities identified in Next Steps.
Add AATA and Visioning as an ongoing agenda item in your Core Team Meetings.
Identify how the team will promote the effective practices and processes of AATA as the standard practice throughout the school.

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