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National Center to Improve Practice in Special Education Through Technology, Media and Materials

Address: 43 Foundry Avenue
Waltham, MA 02453
Website: http://www2.edc.org/NCIP/Default.htm

The National Center to Improve Practice was federally funded from 1992-1998 to improve educational outcomes for students with disabilities by promoting the effective use of assistive and instructional technologies among educators and related personnel… Read More

National Association of Private Special Education Centers NAPSEC

Address: 601 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 900, South Building
Washington, DC 20004
Phone: (202) 434-8225 Fax: (202) 4348224 Website: http://www.napsec.org/index.html

There are 6.6 million students with disabilities being served through the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in the United States. Of these students, 3.4% are being served in private specialized day and/or residential programs. IDEA requires… Read More

National Home Education Research Institute NHERI

Address: PO Box 13939
Salem, OR 97309
Phone: (503) 364-1490 Fax: (503) 3643837 Email: mail@nheri.org Website: http://nheri.org/

Homeschooling – home education or home-based education – has grown from nearly extinct in the United States in the 1970s to now about 2 million school-age students. Much research is being done, internationally, on this fast-growing form of education.… Read More

Children’s Therapy Clinic

Address: 113 Lakeview Drive
Charleston, WV 25313
Phone: (304) 342-9515 Fax: (304) 3429414 Email: valicia@childrenstherapyclinic.com Website: http://childrenstherapyclinic.com/

Children's Therapy Clinic is located in Charleston, WV. CTC is a non-profit organization that provides therapy services (physical, speech, and occupational) and an autism socialization program to children with special needs. The clients are from low-income… Read More

Cerebral Palsy of Utah – Foundations for Independence

Address: 11657 South Redwood Road
South Jordan, UT 84095
Phone: (801) 996-8218 Website: https://www.ffiutah.org/

Foundations for Independence (FFI) provides services to children and adults. It is the belief of the Board of Directors and staff at FFI that individuals have the right to develop emotionally, intellectually, physically, recreatively, socially, and vocationally… Read More

United Cerebral Palsy of Huntsville & Tennessee Valley, Inc

Address: 2075 Max Luther Drive NW
Huntsville, AL 35810
Phone: (256) 852-5600 Website: http://www.ucphuntsville.org/

UCP of Huntsville & Tennessee Valley, Inc. provides thousands of hours of service annually to clients ages birth through the lifespan at little or no cost to individuals, families or professionals. UCP services and support are provided by 21 full-time… Read More

Pacific ADA Center

Address: 555 12th Street, Suite 1030
Oakland, CA 94607
Phone: (510) 831-6714 Fax: (510) 285-5614 Email: info@adapacific.org Website: https://www.adapacific.org/

The purpose of the Pacific ADA Center is to build a partnership between the disability and business communities and to promote full and unrestricted participation in society for persons with disabilities through education and technical assistance. The… Read More

Opportunity Village ARC

Address: 6050 S. Buffalo Drive
Las Vegas, NV 89113
Phone: (702) 259-3700 Email: brownt@opportunityvillage.org Website: http://www.opportunityvillage.org/

Opportunity Village is a not-for-profit organization that serves people within the Las Vegas, Nevada community with significant intellectual disabilities, to enhance their lives and the lives of their families.   Opportunity Village focuses our efforts… Read More

CADRE The National Center on Dispute Resolution in Special Education

Address: 3411-A Willamette Street
Eugene, OR 97405-5122
Phone: (541) 686-5060 Fax: (541) 6865063 Website: http://www.directionservice.org/cadre/index.cfm

The Center 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. CADRE works with state and local… Read More

Early Head Start National Resource Center

Address: 1255 23rd Street, NW, Suite 350
Washington, DC 20037
Phone: (202) 638-1144 Fax: (202) 6380851 Website: http://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc/tta-system/ehsnrc

Early Head Start (EHS), a federally funded community-based program for low-income pregnant women andfamilies with infants and toddlers up to age 3, has 1,027 programs which provide EHS child development andfamily support services in all 50 states, the… Read More

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