Technical Assistance
A variety of technical assistance resources and guidance materials are available from Special Education for school districts, parents and others interested in the education of students with disabilities.
Technical Assistance Centers/Resources
- Center for
Autism and Related Disabilities (CARD)
- Early Childhood Direction Centers
- Higher Education Support Center
(HESC)
- Impartial Hearing Officers
- Intensive Teacher Institute - Visually Impaired
- Intensive Teacher Institute in Bilingual Special Education (ITI-BSE)
- Mediation Services for Special Education
- New York City Preschool Bilingual/ English as a Second Language Technical Assistance
- NYS Bilingual School Psychology Support Center
- NYS Speech-Language Pathology Consortium
- Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) Technical Assistance Center
- Professional Development for Impartial Hearing Officers
- Response to Intervention - Technical
Assistance Center
- Regional Special Education Technical Assistance Support Centers
- Special Education Parent Centers
- Speech-Language and Bilingual Speech-Language Personnel Development Technical Assistance Center (SLPD-TAC)
- Technical
Assistance Center on Disproportionality at NYU
- Transition Services Professional Development Support Center
- University Training Program Enrollment and Capacity Survey
Technical Assistance Materials
- Response to Intervention - Guidance for New York State School Districts - October 2010
- Quality Indicator Review and Resource Guides for Literacy; Behavioral Supports and Interventions; and Special Education Instructional Practices
- Publications
- Additional Resources
Effective Practices
The Supporting Successful Strategies To Achieve Improved Results Project (S3TAIR) is a federally funded project that has a goal of identifying effective practices in schools throughout New York State to improve outcomes for students with disabilities by supporting implementation of evidence-based effective practices in literacy, positive academic and behavior interventions and supports, and special education instruction.
Presentation Materials
RSE-TASC Statewide Meeting - May 2010
Results for Students with Disabilities - Presentation by Dr. Rebecca H. Cort
Results: Text-Only
Results: HTML Graphic
Results: PowerPoint(1.00 MB)
Statewide Meeting - October 7-8, 2009
The State of Special Education - Presentation by Rebecca H. Cort, Deputy Commissioner
Special Education: Text-Only
Special Education: HTML Graphic
Special Education: PowerPoint
Statewide/SETRC Meeting - January 27-29, 2009
- Changing Classroom Practice: Preparing
School Systems to Use Formative Assessment Data and Research-Based
Practices: Resources
(783
KB) - Jim Wright, Presenter - Changing Classroom Practice: Formative
Assessment of Academic & Behavioral Progress: Selected
Tools (945 KB)
- Jim Wright, Presenter
Statewide/SETRC Meeting - October 2-4, 2007
- Implementing IDEA 2004: 2007 Changes to NYS’ Special Education Laws and Regulations
- Students with Disabilities in the P-16 Framework: Outcomes and Improvement Strategies
- Discipline and Due Process
- Referrals, Evaluations and Eligibility Determinations
- Preschool Updates
- Students with Disabilities Parentally Placed in Nonpublic Elementary or Secondary Schools
- CSE/CPSE Meeting Membership, Individualized Education Programs, and Continuum of Services
Adolescent Literacy: Research to Practice to Quality Indicators - Dr. Lori Strong - January 2008