Projects

Act Early Idaho helps families and professionals monitor children’s development and identify concerns early. The project also works to provide useful tools and materials for families with young children during COVID-19.

artAbility is a student-led project supported by the University of Idaho’s Center on Disabilities and Human Development (CDHD) in collaboration with the Idaho Self-Advocate Leadership Network (SALN), Moscow Chapter. The project was created in 2014 to encourage adults with disabilities to express themselves through participation in art workshops with local art instructors and University of Idaho student volunteers.

• View the 2020-21 artAbility project
• View the 2021 artAbility Digital Showcase

The purpose of the Idaho Project for Children and Youth with Deaf-Blindness is to enhance the educational services provided to children and youth, birth through age 21 years, with combined vision and hearing impairments. The Project provides statewide technical assistance and training to support parents, service providers, and agencies in meeting the educational needs of children and youth who are deaf-blind.

Project Partners

• U.S. Department of Education
  Office of Special Education Programs

Idaho AT4ALL lists a variety of used equipment available for sale, give-away or loan, including wheelchairs and scooters, walkers, personal care items, items for vision and hearing impairments, hospital beds, computers, adapted vehicles, and more!

Project Partners

• Computers for Kids
• Idaho State Department of Education
• Living Independence Network

The Idaho Assistive Technology Project (IATP) is a federally funded program administered by the Center on Disabilities and Human Development at the University of Idaho. The goal of the IATP is to increase the availability of assistive technology devices and services for older persons and Idahoans with disabilities.

Project Partners

• Idaho State Department of Education
• Idaho Division of Vocational Rehabilitation

The Idaho Living Well Project has a goal to build an innovated, self-advocate led, collaborative health and safety monitoring system designed to protect adults living in HCBS settings against abuse, neglect, and exploitation; and create a comprehensive system of training and career development.

Project Partners

• Community NOW!
• Idaho Council on Developmental Disabilities
• DisAbility Rights Idaho
• Idaho Health and Welfare
• Idaho Self-Advocate Leadership Network – Moscow Chapter

Idaho Special Education Support & Technical Assistance (SESTA) assists the Idaho State Department of Education, Special Education Department by providing professional development and monitoring supports to build the capacity of district administrators and school-based personnel to (a) increase positive student outcomes in inclusive environments through evidence-based practices and (b) increase achievement on IDEA indicators.

Project Partners

• Idaho State Department of Education, Special Education
• Idaho Training Clearinghouse
• Boise State University
• University of Idaho

The Idaho Training Clearinghouse (ITC) lists all current special education related trainings across the state in order to link special educators and parents of students with disabilities with training opportunities across multiple agencies and parent groups.

Project Partners

• Idaho State Department of Education
• Idaho SESTA

IdahoSTARS is a statewide program designed to assist parents by offering child care referrals and information about quality child care settings as well as to assist child care providers with a variety of professional development opportunities and resources.

Project Partners

• Community Action Partnership
• District 1 Health Department
• Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children (IAEYC)
• Idaho Department of Health and Welfare

Doors to colleges are opening for people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities in many different ways all over the country. Think College Idaho provides resources and tools for families and students getting ready for college. The information is for transition aged students as well as adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities attending or planning for college.

Project Partner

• Think College

The University of Idaho Child & Youth Study Center provides a broad range of psychological assessment and services for children and youth in the Palouse region.

Contact the Child and Youth Study Center at 208-885-6191.