The Institute is home to over one hundred projects and
six affiliated centers. Projects & centers at the Institute fall under
one or more of the following program areas, each of which
addresses a different part of the life span–
For information about the program areas and its projects/affiliated center, select the above links. To search for a specific project or affiliated center using keywords, go to our Project Search page. You may also read highlights about various projects in the news.
Affiliated Centers
Six specialized centers are affiliated with the Institute:
 National Center on Educational Outcomes
The Center provides national leadership in the participation
of students with disabilities in district, state, and
national assessments; standards-setting efforts; and
graduation requirements. It conducts research, provides
technical assistance, networks funded assessment research
projects, and engages in extensive dissemination activities.
 National Center on Secondary Education and Transition
The Center provides technical assistance and information
dissemination on improved access and success for students
with disabilities in secondary and postsecondary education,
as well as employment, independent living, and community
participation.
 North Central Regional Resource Center
The Center seeks to improve education results for children
and youth with disabilities through state-level systems
change. It provides technical assistance and dissemination
support to state and local education agencies in Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
and Wisconsin as they seek to sustain systems change
efforts that improve educational results and accountability
for children and youth with disabilities and their families.
 Partnership
for Accessible Reading Assessments
The Partnership engages
in research on and development of accessible reading assessments
that provide a valid demonstration of reading proficiency
for increasingly diverse populations of students in our
public schools, and particularly for those students who
have disabilities that affect reading. It is operated by
a consortium consisting of the National Center on Educational
Outcomes; the National Center for Research on Evaluation,
Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST); and Westat.
Research and Training Center on
Community Living
The Center engages in research, training,
and technical assistance on community living for
persons with developmental disabilities, and maintains
a national database on residential and related services.
Part of a national network of Rehabilitation Research
and Training Centers, it operates in collaboration
with the Center on Human Policy at Syracuse University,
and the Coleman Institute on Cognitive Disability
at the University of Colorado.
 Research Institute
on Progress Monitoring
The Institute engages in development
of a seamless and flexible system of student progress
monitoring to be used in K-12 schools across ages, abilities,
and curricula. The system that results from the Institute's
research will be used to evaluate the effects of individualized
instruction on access to and progress in the general education
curriculum for students with disabilities, and will result
in improved instructional decision-making and more successful
instructional programs in general education for students
with disabilities.
In addition, the Institute
collaborates with the Center
for Early Education and Development (CEED) at the University
of Minnesota on early childhood activities.
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