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� Crisis intervention
� Referrals to outside agencies
� Consultation with a Child Psychiatrist (upon request)
II. Counseling Services
� Short and long term individual counseling
� Consultation with parents, teachers and staff
� Individual student planning
� Curriculum-based classroom activities
� Peer mediation groups
III. Behavior Support
� Behavior assessment and management
� In-service training through staff-development activities
� School-wide system of Positive Behavior Intervention Support (PBIS)
IV. High School Guidance Services
� Walk-in counseling for students seeking help related to academics and social interaction
skills
� Guidance instruction as outlined by the FCPS Guidance Curriculum
� College and career advising
� College admissions testing
� Course planning and advising
� ACT tests of Educational Development Administration
V. Transition Services
The MSD transition staff works with students and their families to plan and prepare for the student’s
transition from school to life. Every MSD student, beginning at age 14, receives transition services. An
MSD transition coordinator meets with each high school student every year to discuss the student’s
plans, and to determine what services or activities are needed to assist the student in meeting his or
her goals for the future. All MSD students receive transition services, beginning at the IEP meeting in
which the child turns 14 years old.
Transition planning includes…
� helping students to identify their interest, preferences, and needs;
� identifying each student’s possible post school goals (such as career direction, further education
or training, independent living, community access, leisure and recreational skills, needed support
services);
� developing with the student, a coordinated set of activities that will help the student reach these
goals;
� preparing the student and parent to assume responsibility for accessing services and requesting
needed accommodations in the community (self-advocacy);
� linking students and parents with the employment/business community;
� linking students and families with further education and training options; and
� linking students and families with adult service providers (DORS/VR, DDA, etc).
These transition services, mandated by law, are defined as “a coordinated set of activities for a student
designed within an outcome-oriented process which promotes movement from school to post-school
activities.” After a student finishes school at MSD, these activities may include: “post-secondary
education, vocational training, community employment, supported employment, continuing and adult
education, adult services, independent living, and community participation” (Public law 105-17, IDEA).
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