SDSU Special Education Websites
Visit these websites to learn more about some of the projects affiliated with the Department of Special Education:
Special Education Projects, The Special Education Project Office administers personnel preparation grant programs in special education. These federally funded programs are designed to address specific personnel need areas in the special education community. Students who are accepted into one of these grant programs are provided financial assistance as they pursue their degree and/or credential in special education.
Project Director: Dr. Patricia Cegelka, pcegelka@mail.sdsu.edu
Federal and State Special Education Division Websites
California Department of Education, Special Education Division
The Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) is a component of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), which is one of the principal components of the U.S. Department of Education (ED). In addition to OSEP, OSERS includes the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) and the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). OSEP's mission and organization focus on the free appropriate public education of children and youth with disabilities from birth through age 21.
Resources in Special Education Websites
The CBEST web site may be useful to you as you prepare to take the CBEST. The web site contains practice test questions for reading, writing, and mathematics.
Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) is the largest international professional organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities, and/or the gifted. CEC advocates for appropriate governmental policies, sets professional standards, provides continual professional development, advocates for newly and historically underserved individuals with exceptionalities, and helps professionals obtain conditions and resources necessary for effective professional practice.
Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders (CCBD) is committed to promoting and facilitating the education and general welfare of children and youth with behavioral and emotional disorders. Members
receive Behavioral Disorders quarterly, Beyond Behavior magazine three times a year, and the CCBD Newsletter six times a year. CCBD is one of the divisions of the CEC.
The Division for Early Childhood (DEC) is nonprofit organization advocating for individuals who work for or on behalf of children with special needs, birth through age 8, and their families. DEC is one of the divisions of the CEC.
Exceptional Family Resource Center (EFRC) of San Diego and Imperial Counties increases awareness and promotes the perception that families of children with disabilities are healthy, functional and resourceful. The EFRC provides a range of print and media resources, parent-to-parent support, and training to parents and professionals in the community.
Learning Disabilities Association of California is a non-profit volunteer organization of parents, professionals, and adults with learning disabilities. Its purpose is to promote and support the education and general welfare of children and adults of potentially normal intelligence who manifest learning, perceptual, and/or behavioral disabilities.
The Association of Persons with Severe Handicaps stands for equity, diversity, social justice, and inclusion through research, social action, legislation, and community building.
The CLAS Institute (Culturally & Linguistically Appropriate Services) is a federally-funded early childhood research institute at the University of Illinois,Urbana/Champaign that reviews materials, conducts literature reviews and disseminates information on materials that are culturally and linguistically appropriate for young children and their families.
The National Center to Improve Practice seeks to improve educational outcomes for students with disabilities by promoting the effective use of assistive and instructional technologies among educators and related personnel serving these students. In order to accomplish this goal, NCIP is creating a national community of educators--technology coordinators, staff developers, teachers, specialists, clinicians, administrators, university faculty, advocates and consumers--who play a leading role in promoting and implementing assistive and instructional technologies for students with disabilities at a local, regional or national level.