Special Education Grants

The Special Education program is dedicated to the education and treatment of children, youth and adults with exceptionalities and their families.  The grants identified at this site represent some of our efforts.

Brief descriptions of each of our current grants are below.  To the left, you will find links to webpages  with detailed grant information. The links above will provide additional information about the College of Education and the Department of Educational and Psychological Studies, where FIU's special education program is housed.

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Project PEACE (Preparing Educators about Autism through Collaborative Efforts): Designed to recruit, educate, and retain high qualified and effective teachers to work and serve culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

Project Natural Beginnings (Personnel Preparation for Early Childhood Special Educators):To prepare individuals with an interest and commitment to serve and instruct young children with disabilities, their families, and communities in natural, inclusive, and diverse environments

Project CREATE (Collaborative Redesign for Effectiveness Across Teacher Education): The purpose of this grant is to redesign teacher preparation programs for special education teachers serving K-12 students to assure that graduates meet the highly qualified requirements of NCLB and IDEA.

Project Safe Passage (Secondary Accommodations for Educators: Partnership of Arts and Sciences, Special, and General Education): Designed to improve the education of secondary exceptional education students by providing coursework leading to highly-qualified secondary special education teachers and a masters degree in special education.

Urban SEALS (Special Education Academic LeaderS): Designed to prepare approximately 15 doctoral graduates to provide leadership in urban special education and to facilitate urban special education reforms. 

Miami-Dade-Monroe County PDP: Designed to increase the capacity to recruit, prepare and retain sufficient numbers of qualified ESE personnel. Projects include a mentoring project for newly-hired teachers, graduate courses for special education teachers, and endorsement courses in early childhood special education.

Miami-Dade-Monroe County SIG: Designed to increase the capacity to recruit, prepare and retain sufficient numbers of qualified ESE personnel.  Includes 5 projects: endorsement course in autism, a Monroe County ESE Resource/Retention specialist, new teacher support network, undergraduate courses for special education majors, and Family as Faculty.