Your child has a right to receive a free appropriate public education until the end of the school year in which they turn 21, or until they graduate with a Regents or local high school diploma.  As your child prepares to exit school for any of these reasons, a Student Exit Summary will be completed.  The purpose of the Student Exit Summary is to provide your student with a written report that provides essential information to be considered during the transition from high school to post-secondary life. The Student Exit Summary should be a useful and relevant document that summarizes your student’s abilities, skills, needs, and limitations and provides recommendations to support successful transition to adult living, learning, and working. The Student Exit Summary should be designed to assist the student in establishing eligibility for reasonable accommodations and supports in post-secondary settings, the workplace, and the community and to aid the student in accessing adult services as appropriate. It should help students better understand the impact of their disability and articulate individual strengths and needs as well as supports that would be helpful in post-school life. 

There are no IEPs in college. Students with disabilities may choose to seek the support of a college or university’s disability office. If the disability office finds the student eligible for accommodations, an accommodation plan will be developed based on the documentation that the student provides. Colleges or universities are not required to provide modifications which may alter the content students are required to learn.  Some great resources to share with college disability offices are the student’s last IEP, the last psychological evaluation that was conducted by the school district, and the students' exit summary.  Having copies of these on hand will speed up collaboration with the college or university's disability office.