Specialty Sets for Specific Practice Areas
About Our Specialty Sets
The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Specialty Sets are used in conjunction with a corresponding set of preparation standards and delineate the essential knowledge and skills that beginning special education professionals must possess to be ready to begin their practice in specific areas.
The specialty sets aligned to the 2012 Initial Standards below are for archival purposes and are no longer current. Programs should transition to using the 2020 Initial Practice Based Professional Preparation Standards which no longer require alignment to, or use of, the specialty sets to inform their program curriculum or assessments.
Initial and Advanced Specialty Sets
CEC has developed the following specialty sets for the 2012 Initial and Advanced Preparation Standards. The revised 2020 Initial K12 Standards do not require a program to be informed by or aligned to a specialty set but will continue to maintain them as a program resource.
INITIAL |
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| for use with the 2020 Initial Preparation Standards |
| Deafblindness Initial |
| Deafblindness Intervener |
| for use with the 2012 Initial Preparation Standards |
| Initial Common Specialty Items |
| Blind and Visually Impaired |
| Deaf and Hard of Hearing |
| Developmental Disabilities and Autism Spectrum Disorder |
| Emotional and Behavior Disorders |
| Individualized General Curriculum |
| Individualized Independence Curriculum |
| Individualized General Curriculum & Individualized Independence Curriculum, Combined |
| Learning Disabilities Specialty Set |
| Physical, Health, and Multiple Disabilities |