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The Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) in the U.S. Department of Education is dedicated to enacting the vision of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) by improving results for infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities ages birth through 21. To support this mission, OSEP distributes discretionary grants to support personnel development, technical assistance and dissemination, technology, media and materials, and parent-training and information centers.
OSEP funds over 50 centers to provide a diverse range of services and supports to special education stakeholders. These centers provide technical assistance (TA) services to families, schools, districts, and States.

OSEP has technical assistance (TA) centers, which are funded under the following IDEA programs: Personnel Development; Technical Assistance and Dissemination (TA&D); Educational Technology, Media, and Materials; Parent Training and Information; and the TA on State Data Collection.
The following listings provide the name, description and contact information for the Centers. The Centers are grouped by the following categories:

• Data Collection, Analysis, and Use
• Accessibility
• Early Childhood
• Effective Instruction
• School Climate and Behavior
• Building Systems of Support
• Sensory Disabilities
• Supporting Parents and Families
• Secondary Transition

The online infographic provides the names of each of the centers, links to their websites, and their focus areas.  It can be used as an interactive PDF within the website, or it can be printed on legal-sized paper.

Each month NASDSE will share with the State Directors of Special Education resources from the Centers. Resources will be shared from OSEP’s Update Newsletter each month, as well as NASDSE’s recommendations specifically for State Directors of Special Education.