Office of Special Education Programs
This interactive toolkit summarizes academic research literature and policy analyses on specific accommodations for students with disabilities. The resource is organized by learner accommodation and contains a research fact sheet for each accommodation. Learn more.
This infographic shares steps to help parents coach their child’s literacy learning at home. Tips on providing feedback and offering other coaching support to break down difficult tasks are provided. Learn more.
This resource (PDF, 7 pages) highlights OSEP-funded centers that help support the implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and provide technical assistance (TA) services to families, schools, districts, and states. The document outlines:
Technical Assistance and Dissemination (TA&D) centers
Parent Training and Information centers
Educational Technology, Media, and Materials centers
Personnel ...
This webpage explores data on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The webpage examines data on children whose primary disability is intellectual disability. Learn more.
This letter provides guidance to states to ensure the rights of students with disabilities and their parents are protected. The letter describes states’ general supervision responsibilities to ensure that all students with disabilities have access to a free appropriate public education (FAPE) that emphasizes special education and related services designed ...
This module provides participants with resources to increase their awareness of the ethnic and cultural diversity within the deaf community. This module examines identity and intersectionality among deaf people from lived experiences of deaf people. This module provides tools for students, instructors of deaf students, professionals with deaf coworkers, managers ...
The director of the Office of Special Education Programs launched a new blog series that will explain topics of interest related to the discipline and behavior guidance package released by her office this past summer. The blog series will discuss topics such as alternatives to exclusionary discipline, informal removals, discipline ...
This practice guide summarizes evidence-based, positive, and proactive practices that support and respond to students’ social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) needs in classrooms and similar teaching and learning environments (e.g., small-group activity). Included are a self-assessment, examples of critical practices in elementary and secondary settings, scenarios that illustrate implementation, and ...
This toolkit includes evidence- and research-based practices, tools, and resources that educators, families, facilities, and community agencies can use to better support and improve the long-term outcomes for youth with disabilities in juvenile correctional facilities.
MPTAC helps parent centers in their work supporting military families.
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