PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
(1) To help address State-identified needs for qualified personnel in special education, related services, early intervention, and regular education, to work with children with disabilities; and (2) ensure that those personnel have the skills and knowledge, derived from practices that have been determined, through research and experience, to be successful, that are needed to serve those children.

 ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. EDUCATION;
- Educational Equipment and Resources;
- Handicapped Education;
- Resource Development and Support - Elementary, Secondary Education;
- Resource Development and Support - Vocational Education and Handicapped Education;
- Teacher Training;

 WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- Education Professional;
- Handicapped;
- Physically Afflicted (e.g. TB, Arthritis, Heart Disease);
- Infant (0-5);
- Child (6-15);
- Youth (16-21);

 WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Local (includes State-designated Indian Tribes, excludes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Public non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Profit organization;
- Private non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);