Useful quick reference on age of majority & transfer of parental rights:
http://www.pacer.org/transition/resource-library/publications/NPC-19.pdfNote that there should have been documentation before his 17th birthday of discussion in the IEP team regarding age of majority. In many states, schools are required not only to document the one-year notification, but also to have students sign an affirmative age of majority/parental rights document, selecting sole or shared decision-making (or ceding all rights to the parent).
Regardless of age of majority decisions, the student (unless declared legally incompetent, or under conservatorship) always has the right to invite anyone s/he wants to IEP meetings, and to share documents with any person of his/her choice. The issue of transfer of parental rights is most important in those cases where the student does not have a good relationship with the parents, or is an unreliable communicator.
