Welcome to the newly designed Arkansas Transition Services website! We are excited to launch a new website with a new look and lots of new information to better serve teachers, students, parents and agencies. After all, we are all in the transition process together!

Transition goals and services must be in place by the time a child reaches age 16, as mandated by the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA 2004). If you are a student with a disability and are approaching the age of 16 or you know someone who is, chances are there is already or soon will be a set of Transition Goals and Services in place in their Individualized Education Plan (IEP). In Arkansas, these are forms 400-402. These forms indicate the goals the student has for life after high school, activities that need to be in place to support those goals, and courses the student needs to take to work toward those goals. When transition is going to be discussed at an IEP meeting, the student is required to be invited to the meeting—and it’s really important that students attend and participate in these meetings! It’s all about collaborating with teachers, agencies, employers, parents and students to promote movement to positive post school outcomes. Planning now makes for a much brighter future!

The content of the this website is intended to provide resources, information, and valuable links for students, parents, teachers and agencies (and anyone else interested in improving post school outcomes for our students with disabilities). Please take time to look around the website and visit often—something you might not need today, you will need tomorrow! Also, visiting often will help you keep up with the happenings in Transition in Arkansas through our “Happenings” section.

We would love your feedback—please send comments or questions to ARtransition@conwaycorp.net.