Person Centered Planning Research Paper

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Person centered planning is planning from a person-centered viewpoint seeks to listen, discover and understand the individual. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA ’97) requires that a student’s Individualized Education Program include transition planning by age 14 or earlier, if appropriate. This plan should reflect a student’s interests and preferences, current accomplishments and skills, what they still need to learn, as well as what they want to do in life. This can include a range of goals, everything from the type of career the student would like to pursue to the kind of living situation he or she hopes to have. Person-centered planning is a way to identify a student’s individual goals and to help students, families,