Register for the OSERS Expect, Engage, Empower Symposium

Each year, the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) at the Department of Education conducts a symposia series to provide high-quality, timely, and evidence-based strategies focused on improving performance in a specific topic.

The 2023-2024 OSERS Symposia Series will provide an opportunity for the field to join OSERS in the challenge to raise expectations, engage families earlier, and fully empower all individuals who support transition services to improve post-school outcomes for children and youth with disabilities and their families.

This symposium will focus on the important considerations children, youth, and young adults with disabilities and their families need to be aware of, and prepared for, to maximize their potential as they enter and move through the K-12 school system.

General and special education teachers, related service providers, administrators, and vocational rehabilitation specialists can all support high expectations, engagement, and empowerment by building their collective capacity to support children, youth, young adults with disabilities, and their families throughout their educational and professional endeavors. 

Contact the planning team at OSEP-EEE@air.org with any questions.