Branches of the National CEC (USA)

~Council for Administrators of Special Education (CASE)

This branch promotes professional leadership by providing opportunities for study of common special education administrative and supervisory concerns and a means of communicating about them.

~Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders (CCBD)

This branch pursues quality educational services and program alternatives for children and youth with behavioral disorders, advocates for their needs, and emphasizes research and professional growth as vehicles for better understanding behavioral disorders.

~Division for Research (CEC-DR)

This branch promotes research and the utilization of knowledge to enchance the education of exceptional children.

~CEC Pioneers Division (CEC-PD)

This branch promotes activities and programs to increase awareness of the eduational needs of exceptional children and the services available to them.

~Council for Educational Diagnostic Services (CEDS)

This branch promotes the highest quality of appraisal and diagnostic services for children and youth.

~Division for Children with Communication Disorders (DCCD)

This branch is dedicated to improving the education and welfare of children with hearing, speech, and language disorders.

~Division of Career Development and Transition (DCDT)

This branch encourages inter-divisional and inter-agency utilization of effective career development concepts.

~Division for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Exceptional Learners.

This branch is dedicated to advancing and promoting educational opportunities for culturally and linguistically diverse exceptional children, their families, and the professionals who serve them.

~Division for Early Childhood (DEC)

This branch promotes services, including special education, for young children with special needs and their families.

~Divsion of International Special Education and Services (DISES)

This branch addresses the need for better liason with persons concerned with providing services to individuals with disabilities throughout the world and seeks to inform its members about special education activities throughout the world.

~Division for Learning Disabilities

This branch promotes the improved services, research and legislation for learning disabled.

~Division for Physical and Health Disabilities (DPHD)

This branch promotes quality programs for physically disabled and/or health- impaired individuals.

~Division on Visual Handicaps (DVH)

This branch promotes appropriate educational programs for individuals who have visual disabilities a well as greater understanding of their concomitant conditions.

~Division of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (MRDD)

This branch promotes professional growth and research to advance programs of persons with mental retardation.

~Association for the Gifted (TAG)

This branch focuses on the delivery of information to both professionals and parents about gifted and talented children and their needs.

~Technology and Media

This branch is a leader in research, development, training and demonstration activities related to the application of technology with exceptional individuals.

~Teacher Education Division (TED)

This branch promotes the development of more effective programs for professional preparation of special education practitioners.

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