Improving Transition Support for Juvenile Offenders With Disabilities Through a Collaborative Approach

Abstract

Collaboration between special educators and transition coordinators is important to lower recidivism rates among juvenile offenders with disabilities. This column provides best practice transition guidelines and urges special education teachers, special education coordinators, and transition coordinators in juvenile correctional facilities to communicate among themselves and other professionals to collaborate during the transition period from the community to confinement and when juveniles with disabilities reenter the community.