{"id":2658,"date":"2014-10-06T10:53:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T14:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2014-10-06T10:53:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T14:53:42","slug":"new-website-center-on-technology-and-disability-10614","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2658","title":{"rendered":"New website &#8211; Center on Technology and Disability, 10\/6\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Institutes on Research (AIR) is now collaborating with FHI360 and PACER to launch a website for the new Center on Technology and Disability (CTD).<\/p>\n<p>Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, CTD\u2019s website will be launched early this fall. The site will offer online learning opportunities, curated resources, and access to national experts to increase the capacity of families and educators to the latest information on assistive and instructional technologies.<\/p>\n<p>CTD brings together the power of several national centers with a combined total of 50+ years of expertise in AT and IT. Specifically, we are leveraging expertise from <strong>FHI 360\u2019s<\/strong> <em>Family Center on Technology &amp; Disability<\/em> and <em>National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities<\/em> (NICHCY), <strong>PACER\u2019s<\/strong> <em>Simon Technology Center<\/em>, and <strong>American Institutes for Research\u2019s<\/strong> (AIR) <em>National Center on Technology Innovation<\/em> (NCTI), <em>Center on Implementing Technology in Education<\/em> (CITEd), and the Center for Technology Implementation\u2019s <em>PowerUp WHAT WORKS.<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On CTD\u2019s new website, you\u2019ll be able to find all of these great center resources in <strong>one place<\/strong>, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Online learning modules<\/li>\n<li>Ongoing discussion forums<\/li>\n<li>A robust library of resources<\/li>\n<li>And other engaging activities!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Use this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctdinstitute.org\/\">link<\/a> to sign up to receive information and updates on CTD\u2019s upcoming events!<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2658\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Institutes on Research (AIR) is now collaborating with FHI360 and PACER to launch a website for the new Center on Technology and Disability (CTD). Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, CTD\u2019s website will be launched early this fall. The site will offer online learning opportunities, curated resources, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,27,17,14,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2659,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions\/2659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}