Blumberg Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Special Education

Services for Educators and Families

Over the past twenty years, the Blumberg Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Special Education has provided services for educators and families of students with special needs in Indiana.  These services included professional development programs, technical assistance and mentoring, and preservice training.  Activities are conducted through partnerships with Indiana schools, families, and community agencies allowing the Center to play a critical role in supporting collaborative teams across a variety of projects.  Each of the services provided by the projects are briefly described on this page with more detail information found on specific project pages.

*The Collaborative Problem Solving Project, funded by the Indiana Department of Education, Division of Exceptional Learners supports special education cooperatives, districts, and schools in implementation of tiered systems of prevention and intervention through trainings, technical assistance, and resource dissemination.

*The Deaf and Hard of Hearing Project is designed to provide inservice training to support teachers of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, as well as to work with Educational Interpreters’ Task Force in developing statewide training protocol for interpreters.

*The Indiana Deafblind Services Project is a statewide service committed to providing person centered educational training to individuals who are Deafblind (Birth to 21 years), their families and service providers through activities such as child focused consultations, training, family learning weekends, a parent/professional resource library, and dissemination.

*Project Vision provides a preservice and inservice training, resource information and peer support for Indiana teachers who serve students who are blind or have low vision, as well as training to increase the number of Orientation and Mobility Specialists across the state.