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    • The IRIS Center is a national center dedicated to improving education outcomes for all children, especially those with disabilities birth through age twenty-one, through the use of effective evidence-based practices and interventions. Their website contains a number of resources and PDs helpful for special educators
    • The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) is the largest international professional organization dedicated to improving the success of children and youth with disabilities and/or gifts and talents. Their website contains a number of resources helpful to teachers.
    • Understood is the leading nonprofit empowering the 70 million people with learning and thinking differences in the United States. They have an abundance of information that can be helpful to teachers and parents.
    • This page is intended to help educators and other building-based personnel find tools and resources to support students with intensive needs, including students with disabilities and those who have not responded to validated intervention programs delivered with fidelity. General and special education teachers, interventionists, school psychologists, school counselors, and others may find this information helpful.