Access Center: Improving Outcomes for All Students K-8
A free, online, user-friendly, searchable database to help educators identify and compare assistive and learning software and products and related research for students with special needs.

Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center
The AACC implements, evaluates, and improves assessment and accountability systems so that states and districts can reach the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) goal of academic proficiency for all students.

CADRE (Consortium for Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Special Education)
CADRE works to increase the nation’s capacity to effectively resolve special education disputes, reducing the use of expensive adversarial processes.

Center for Early Literacy Learning (CELL)
The main goal of CELL is to promote the adoption and sustained use of evidence-based early literacy learning practices by early childhood intervention practitioners, parents, and other caregivers of young children, birth to five years of age, with identified disabilities, developmental delays, and those at-risk for poor outcomes.

Center for Implementing Technology in Education (CITEd)
CITEd identifies evidence-based practices for integrating instructional technology to support the achievement of all students.

Center for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
The TA Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports has been established by the Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education to give schools capacity-building information and technical assistance for identifying, adapting, and sustaining effective school-wide disciplinary practices.

Center on Innovation & Improvement
The Center on Innovation & Improvement supports regional centers in their work with states to provide districts, schools, and families with the opportunity, information, and skills to make wise decisions on behalf of students.

Center on Instruction
The Center on Instruction, a partnership of five organizations, provides resources and expertise to the Regional Comprehensive Centers in reading, mathematics, science, special education, and English language learning.

Center on State Implementation and Scaling-up of Evidence-based Practices (SISEP)
The purpose of SISEP is to help States establish adequate capacity to carry out effective implementation, organizational change, and systems transformation strategies to maximize the academic achievement and behavioral health outcomes of students statewide.

Comprehensive Center - Florida and the Islands
The mission of this and all technical-assistance regional centers is to help low-performing districts and schools close achievement gaps and meet the goals of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001.  The Florida and Islands Regional Comprehensive Center serves the state of Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Comprehensive Center - Southeast
SECC works closely with the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina to provide access to information, models, and materials that facilitate implementation of, and compliance with, NCLB.

Comprehensive Center - Texas
The Purpose of the Texas Comprehensive Center is to provide technical assistance and support to the Texas Education Agency to assure Texas has an education system with the capacity and commitment to eliminate achievement gaps and enable all students to achieve at high levels.

Data Accountability Center (DAC)
DAC provides public access to data about children and youth with disabilities served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) - Part B and C; technical assistance (TA) materials to support the collection, analysis and reporting of IDEA data; and the forms and spreadsheets used for collection.

Early Childhood Outcomes Center
The Early Childhood Outcomes (ECO) Center provides national leadership in assisting states with the implementation of high-quality outcome systems for early intervention (EI) and early childhood special education (ECSE) programs.

Family Center on Technology and Disability (FCTD)
The FCTD is a resource designed to support organizations and programs that work with families of children and youth with disabilities. We offer a range of information and services on the subject of assistive and instructional technologies.

IDEA Partnership
The IDEA Partnership reflects the collaborative work of more than 50 national organizations, technical assistance providers, and organizations and agencies at state and local level.

IRIS Center
The IRIS Center is a national center that aims to provide high-quality resources for college and university faculty and professional development providers about students with disabilities. IRIS seeks to obtain this goal by providing free, online, interactive training enhancements that translate research about the education of students with disabilities into practice.

National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCRESt)
NCCRESt provides technical assistance and professional development to close the achievement gap between students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and their peers, and reduce inappropriate referrals to special education.

National Center for Personnel Preparation in Special Education at Minority Institutions of Higher Education
The Monarch Center provides technical assistance, resources, and networking opportunities in pursuit of our goal of affecting positive change in the lives of children with disabilities, particularly those from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) backgrounds.

National Center for Special Education Personnel and Related Service Providers
Working to increase the nation's capacity to recruit, prepare and retain diverse highly qualified special educators, early intervention and related service providers.

National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO)
NCEO was established in 1990 to provide national leadership in designing and building educational assessments and accountability systems that appropriately monitor educational results for all students, including students with disabilities and English Language Learners (ELLs).

National Center on Response to Intervention (RTI)
The Center’s mission is to provide technical assistance to states and districts and building the capacity of states to assist districts in implementing proven models for RTI/EIS.

National Center on Student Progress Monitoring
The Center's mission is to provide technical assistance to states and districts and disseminate information about progress monitoring practices proven to work in different academic content areas (Gr. K-5).

National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality
The TQ Center was created to serve as the premier national resource to which the regional comprehensive centers, states, and other education stakeholders turn for strengthening the quality of teaching - especially in high-poverty, low-performing, and hard-to-staff schools—and for finding guidance in addressing specific needs, thereby ensuring highly qualified teachers are serving students with special needs.

National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness (NCDB)
The consortium focuses on two major purposes as required by OSEP. The first is to promote academic achievement and results for children and youth (from birth to age 26) who are deaf-blind, through technical assistance, model demonstration, and information dissemination activities that are supported by evidence-based practices.  The second purpose is to assist in addressing state-identified needs for highly qualified personnel who have the necessary skills and knowledge to serve children and youth who are deaf-blind.

National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY)
NICHCY provides information on disabilities in children and youth; programs and services for infants, children, and youth with disabilities; IDEA; No Child Left Behind; and research-based information on effective practices for children with disabilities.

National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities
NDPC-SD was specifically established to assist in building states’ capacity to increase school completion rates for students with disabilities through knowledge synthesis, technical assistance, and dissemination of interventions and practices that work.

National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (NECTAC)
NECTAC serves Part C-Infant and Toddlers with Disabilities Programs and Part B-Section 619 Preschool Programs for Children with Disabilities In all 50 states and 10 jurisdictions to improve service systems and outcomes for children and families.

National High School Center
The National High School Center, based at the American Institutes for Research, provides the latest research, user-friendly tools and products, and high-quality technical assistance on high school improvement issues.

National Institute for Urban School Improvement (NIUSI)
The mission of the National Institute for Urban School Improvement (NIUSI) is to develop powerful networks of urban districts and schools that embrace and implement a data-based, continuous improvement approach for inclusive practices.

National Post-School Outcomes Center
The National Post-School Outcomes Center helps state education agencies establish practical and rigorous data collection systems that will measure and profile the post-school experiences of youth with disabilities. The results will be used for national, state, and local reporting and-most importantly-to guide and improve transition services to this population.

National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorders
The National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorders is a multi-university center to promote the use of evidence-based practice for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders.

National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD)
NRCLD's goal is to help educators, policymakers, and parents understand the complexity and importance of making sound decisions regarding whether a child has a specific learning disability. Our research in this area--including studies of the role of and best practices associated with responsiveness to intervention--is the foundation underlying all of the materials available on this site.

National Secondary Transition TA Center
NSTTAC helps states build capacity to support and improve transition planning, services, and outcomes for youth with disabilities and disseminate information and provide technical assistance on scientifically-based research practices with an emphasis on building and sustaining state-level infrastructures of support and district-level demonstrations of effective transition methods for youth with disabilities.

NIMAS Technical Assistance Center
The NIMAS Center maintains and updates the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS), which guides the production of digital versions of textbooks and related instructional materials so they can be more easily converted to accessible formats, including Braille and text-to-speech.

Project Forum
Project Forum's aim is to facilitate improved services to children and youth with disabilities by gathering and sharing information that supports changes to policy and practice at the national, state and local levels.

Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets is a national multimedia project offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help.

Regional Resource Centers Program (RRCP) - Federal
The Regional Resource Centers Program provides service to all states as well as the Pacific jurisdictions, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.  Services offered by the RRC Program include consultation, information services, specially designed technical assistance, training, and product development.

Southeast Regional Resource Center (SERRC)
The RRCs assist states in carrying out activities that support programs for special education and related services for infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities and their families.  SERRC serves the following areas:  Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands.

VISIONS
VISIONS helps to ensure that Native American families of children with the full range of disabilities have the training and information they need to prepare their children for not only school, but to be able to lead productive, independent lives to the fullest extent possible.