What will I do? Where will I live? What will I do in my free time? Wizdom Education presents Transition Planning, Independence and Beyond" to PACER Center national conference

Naperville IL,(PRWEB) September 4, 2003 - Wizdom Education, a premiere source for special education planning and management for school districts, educators and service providers, successfully debuted its flagship Transition Planning software to the PACER Center on August 15 & 16. PACER, a national Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights, is based in Minnesota. Wizdom Transition software efficiently and effectively uses technology to insure that the three major life questions required by The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) are answered:

What will I do?
Where will I live?
What will I do in my free time?

PACER held this conference to give our Parent Fellows, Mentors, staff and Minnesota families the opportunity for a hands on look at the latest thinking and the latest technology available to them," said Deborah Leuchovius, PACER National Transition Coordinator. Wizdom added a unique dimension. Their message is simple and their software is powerful." For this Conference, PACER assembled presenters and associates from as far away as Hawaii and Vancouver, Canada.

Philip Vitkus, Wizdom Director of Instructional Services and Dennis E. Wisnosky, Wizdom founder, demonstrated that with the Wizdom TransPlanner! the complicated Transition process is as easy as 1, 2, 3.

1)   Directions - A web based online survey identifies all of the goals and preferences of the student.

2)   Possibilities - A Knowledge Base of school and community service providers is maintained by the service providers and automatically contains their information in a common format. (Patent Applied for).

3)   Methods - Software that matches the Directions and Possibilities and generates a 1, 2 or 3 year Transition Plan that is unique to the student. (Patent Pending).

The response from those who took advantage of the hands-on demonstration was outstanding," said Dennis E. Wisnosky. Our goal was to reach a wider audience than we have ever had at a single session, we achieved this goal."

About the PACER Center.
Founded in 1977, PACER Center was created by parents of children and youth with disabilities to help other parents and families facing similar challenges. Today, PACER Center expands opportunities and enhances the quality of life of children and young adults with disabilities and their families. PACER is staffed primarily by parents of children with disabilities and works in coalition with 18 disability organizations.

An amazing thing is that new people coming into Transition will have an existing roadmap. They will be able to work with service providers without skipping a beat," noted Reginald Newkirk, founder of Parity Consulting and co-author of the book Racial Healing: The Institutes for the Healing of Racism."

The intuitive nature of our new GUI came through loud and clear," said Phil Vitkus. Users who had never before seen the software were able to jump right in, exceeding our most optimistic expectations."

About Wizdom Education.
Wizdom Education is a Division of Wizdom Systems, a Naperville, Illinois based company that has been providing government and corporate clients with business process reengineering, instructional design, and special education software and services since 1986. Wizdoms host of special education products and services include:

·   LiveIEP!- an easy-to-use IEP program that puts the power of the web into the hands of special education case managers, and lets case managers and other school staff do work without depending upon network availability.
·   TransPlanner!, developed with funding from the U.S. Department of Education - helps students with disabilities, their case managers, and their parents do effective transition planning, and bridge the gap that often exists between schools and community service providers.
·   EducationLive! is a web service that allows school and community service providers to self maintain and broadcast their specific services to the public and to their school and community customers automatically.