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Training and Technical Assistance Center (T/TAC) for School
Personnel Serving Children and Youth with Disabilities

Overview
The T/TAC is part of a statewide network designed to provide quality training and technical assistance to schools and Local Interagency Coordinating Councils (LICCs). Its primary purpose is to improve educational opportunities and contribute to the success of children and youth with disabilities (birth-22 years) and children who have disadvantages or are at-risk for academic failure (birth-8 years). The T/TAC at VCU serves professionals and paraprofessionals in central and southside Virginia. (Funded by the Virginia Department of Education.)

Major Activities

• Conduct consultations with teams of school and/or LICC personnel in response to their self-identified need for assistance
• Provide long-term technical assistance to programs desiring to create significant programmatic changes
• Offer local in-service training and regional workshops that bring noted speakers to address state-of-the-art topics
• Publish the T/TAC newsletter, Innovations and Perspectives, twice a year.
• Disseminate information about upcoming professional development opportunities through publication of the Update portion of the newsletter three times per year
• Maintain a lending library of books, videotapes, assessment instruments, and assistive and instructional technology
• Operate two offices, one at VCU and one in Blackstone, Virginia

Project Staff
Ann Cox, Principal Investigator
Sandy Wilberger, Project Co-Director/Program Specialist
Linda Oggel, Project Co-Director/Program Specialist
Program Specialists: Linda Ingleson, Phyllis Haynes, Sharon Jones, Joanne Gutkin, Tracy Landon, Kelly Ligon, Fran Smith, Chris Frawley, and Kathe Wittig
Kathy Lynch, Evaluation Specialist
Erick Froehlich, Technology Support Specialist
Sarah Clevinger, Office Support Specialist, Blackstone Office
Rose Eanes, Library Assistant

Contact
Sandy Wilberger at (804) 827-1405, swilber@mail1.vcu.edu
Linda Oggel at (804) 827-1400, lsoggel@vcu.edu

T/TAC Web Address: http://www.vcu.edu/ttac