The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) will host the third virtual session for the 2023-2024 OSERS Symposium Series, Expect, Engage, Empower Symposium: Collaboration to Improve Outcomes on Sept. 12, 1 – 2:30 p.m. ET.
About the Event
Each year, OSERS conducts a Symposium Series to provide high-quality, timely, and evidence-based strategies focused on improving performance in a specific topic.
The 2023-2024 OSERS Symposium Series — Expect, Engage, Empower: Successful Transitions for All! — offers an opportunity for the field to join OSERS in the challenge to raise expectations, engage families earlier, and fully empower all individuals who support transition services to improve post-school outcomes for children and youth with disabilities and their families.
This symposium focuses on the importance of collaboration between special education, vocational rehabilitation, and centers for independent living to ensure the best outcomes for our youth with disabilities and their families.
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) provides protections and ensures a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment for eligible children with disabilities, and the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) prepares job seekers, including youth with disabilities and those with significant barriers to employment, to obtain, maintain, and advance in employment in the competitive labor market through education, training, and support services.
General and special education teachers, related service providers, administrators, vocational rehabilitation specialists, and local and state agencies support high expectations, engagement, and empowerment by building their collective capacity to support children, youth and young adults with disabilities and their families throughout their educational and professional endeavors.
Join us as we look at the collaboration among these personnel to maximize the experiences and opportunities for children, youth and young adults with disabilities and their families.
Watch the previous two events for the Expect, Engage, Empower Symposium series.
Additional updates on important resources, events, and information will continue to be posted on OSEP’s Expect, Engage, Empower: Successful Transition for All homepage.
We thank you in advance for your efforts toward this endeavor and look forward to your joining us on Sept. 12, from 1 – 2:30 p.m. ET!
Questions?
If you have any questions, please contact the planning team at OSEP-EEE@air.org.
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