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| | The Center for Early Literacy Learning (CELL) is a research-to-practice technical assistance center. Its main goal 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.
CELL is a project of the Special Education Technical Assistance and Dissemination Network (TA&D), funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS). | | http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/ |
| | | The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning is a five-year project designed to strengthen the capacity of Head Start and child care programs to improve the social and emotional outcomes of young children. The Center will develop training and technical assistance (T/TA) materials that reflect evidence-based practices for promoting children's social and emotional development and preventing challenging behaviors. The Center will then work with professional organizations and Head Start and child care T/TA providers to ensure the use of the evidence-based practices in local demonstration sites. | | http://www.vanderbilt.edu/csefel |
| | The Center to Mobilize Early Childhood Knowledge is known as CONNECT. It is working with the early childhood community to create a series of web-based resources that focus on and respond to challenges faced each day by those working with young children with disabilities and their families. CONNECT is creating an online community to ensure that each aspect of the project is responsive to those working with young children.
CONNECT is a project of the Special Education Technical Assistance and Dissemination Network (TA&D), funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), and is a partnership between FPG Child Development Institute (FPG), the University of Kansas, and the University of Kentucky. | | http://community.fpg.unc.edu/connect |
| | | The Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center (ECLKC) replaces the Head Start Information and Publication Center. It is a service of the Head Start Bureau and it supports the Head Start community and other organizations working in the interest of children and families. ECLKC provides information products and services; conference and meeting support; publication distribution; and marketing and outreach efforts. | | http://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc |
| | The Early Childhood Outcomes Center (ECO Center) promotes the development and implementation of child and family outcome measures for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers with disabilities. These measures can be used in local, state, and national accountability systems. The ECO Center is a collaborative effort of SRI International, FPG Child Development Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill, Juniper Gardens Children's Project, the National Association of State Directors of Special Education, and the University of Connecticut Health Center.
The ECO Center is a project of the Special Education Technical Assistance and Dissemination Network (TA&D), funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS). | | http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~eco/index.cfm |
| | | The Early Head Start National Resource Center (EHS NRC) works to ensure that Early Head Start programs have information and training on best practices on a range of topics. It is a program of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. | | http://www.ehsnrc.org |
| | | The Infantile Scoliosis Outreach Program (ISOP) connects families of children with progressive infantile scoliosis to resources and information that can help them make the best choices possible in the care of their children. The ISOP site contains information on infantile scoliosis, such as Early Treatment with serial corrective plaster jackets/casts, and other research pertinent to progressive infantile scoliosis. ISOP also hosts the CAST online support group, where hundreds of parents come together to share information and experiences. | | http://www.infantilescoliosis.org |
| | | As part of thea National League of Cities, the Institute for Youth, Education, and Families assists local elected officials dealing with policies regarding youth, education, families, and community based organizations dealing with youth and education. They are advocates for children. Their primary focus areas are education, youth development, child care/early childhood development, safety of youth, and family economic security. It provides information; searches for literature, experts, resource materials, and programs, and technical assistance. Previously called the Children and Families in Cities Program. | | http://www.nlc.org/IYEF |
| | | The John Tracy Clinic is an educational center for deaf and hard-of-hearing preschool children and their parents. One of the clinic's goals is to reach parents as soon as possible after their child's hearing loss is diagnosed. Parents may visit, write or call the clinic for information, encouragement, and training in parenting a deaf child and in helping the child acquire skills in language, listening, speechreading, and speech. The John Tracy Clinic services include: (1) consultation services for audiological, hearing aid, and developmental evaluations of deaf children; (2) parent classes in child development and communication skills; (3) parent support groups; (4) a demonstration nursery school in which children and parents are enrolled; (5) a demonstration home program in which families meet individually with a teacher in a home-like setting; (6) summer sessions for parents, children, and their siblings; (7) a teacher education program; and (8) referrals for appropriate educational needs of preschool deaf children and their parents. Correspondence courses for parents of infant and preschool deaf and deaf-blind children are also offered in both English and Spanish by the clinic. All services of the John Tracy Clinic are provided free of charge to children and their parents. Educational materials for professionals are available for a charge. | | http://www.Johntracyclinic.org |
| | The National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (NECTAC) supports the implementation of the early childhood provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). NECTAC helps states improve outcomes for young children and their families by strengthening service systems to ensure children with disabilities (birth through five) and their families receive high quality, culturally appropriate, and family-centered supports and services.
NECTAC is a project of the Special Education Technical Assistance and Dissemination Network (TA&D), funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS). | | http://www.nectac.org |
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