Transition Planning and Transition Services in Special Education

Transition is a life-long process that requires a variety of changes in individuals’ lives. In this process, individuals with special needs face a number of challenges and need support. Transition services planning is carried out in order to ensure that individuals with special needs adapt to various processes that require change and to make the support services provided to individuals with special needs and their families permanent. Transitional periods include a long-term process involving early intervention programs, pre-school, kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, high school, higher education, school to business life and social life. Lack of significant legal basis for transition planning in our country causes individuals with special needs to experience various difficulties during all transition periods, there are gaps between the programs, and they cannot benefit from the special education services offered to them. For this reason, in this study, the concept of transition, the legal bases of transition in the world, the transition planning process, factors affecting transition planning, transition periods, transition, transition assessment process and the studies related to the transition in Turkey have been tried to be explained.