OCALI

Inspiring change for people with disabilities

OCALI Highlights

Center of Excellence on Inclusive Practice

To support educational professionals in engaging high leverage and evidence-based practices that enable all learners to construct their own enviable lives as members of their self-selected communities.

We Are Hiring Outreach Specialist

The Outreach Center is hiring an Outreach Specialist - Deaf/Hard of Hearing with expertise in supporting those providing direct instruction to learners who are deaf/hard of hearing. Apply today!

Hiring - Family Support Specialist

We're hiring parents in the Franklin and Mahoning County areas who want to help other families with young children navigate services and supports for their child's development! Apply today.

Hiring Inclusion Support Specialist - SW Ohio

Seeking an ISS for the SW Ohio region who can coach, mentor & increase the capacity of early care & education professionals. Apply today!

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OCALI Events

Educational Identification of Students with ASD Virtual Training Series

Need support to help identify and serve students with #autism? Join us for 10 session Autism Educational Identification Virtual Training Series. The series runs November-March and space is limited.

Interoception: Feeling the Feels

Ready to learn about the body's eighth sensory system? In the new training series, Interoception: Feeling the Feels with Kelly Mahler, OTD, OTR-L, learn how interoception can affect a student’s ability to understand body signals and feelings, self-regulate, and connect with peers.

OCALICONLINE 2024

The Journey: Community of Practice - Sept. 30

You're invited to share your strategies for creating individualized plans that focus on a student's preferences, interests, needs, and strengths -- as well as any barriers you might be facing.

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OCALI Centers

Informing public policy and developing and deploying best practices - linking research to real life - so that people with disabilities have the opportunity to live their best lives for their whole lives.

Autism Center

Teaching Diverse Learners Center

Universal Design for Learning Center

Assistive Technology And Accessible Educational Materials Center

Lifespan Transitions Center

Family and Community Outreach Center

Center for the Young Child

Outreach Center for Deafness and Blindness

Multi-System Navigation Center

Centers of Excellence Designations

Committed to the full continuum of inclusion across the lifespan, OCALI’s Centers of Excellence bring together internationally renowned experts, best practices, latest research, innovative resources, and extensive supports, materials, and professional development.

Early Childhood Inclusion Center of Excellence

Coming Soon: The Center of Excellence on Inclusive Practice

World Class Online Learning

Creating a better quality of life for people with disabilities and their families, by training support systems with innovative, practical information and instruction based on multiple research-based approaches. Learn more about our training that has served more than 300,000 people worldwide.

Autism Certification Center

ASD Strategies in Action

ASD Strategies in Action offers an innovative approach to online training in evidence-based strategies. Courses provide instruction through videos filmed with educators, service providers, experts, families, and people with ASD in the natural settings of school, home, work, and the community. An introductory course presents the common characteristics of autism and simple strategies. The courses that follow take participants to the next level of understanding with the opportunity to focus on strategies for Toddler and Preschool Age, School Age, or Transition Age individuals.

Autism Internet Modules

Autism Internet Modules (AIM) provide high-quality information and professional development for anyone who supports, instructs, works with, or lives with someone with autism. Developed with partners from across the country, participants can select from over 50 modules to complete at their own time and pace.

Assistive Technology Internet Modules

Assistive Technology Internet Modules (ATIM) is an online learning environment containing 50 AT topics from assessment and funding to content areas such as access to mobile devices, communication, seating and positioning, AT for students with complex needs and more. Developed with partnering universities and nationally renowned experts in the field, ATIM brings you the highest quality content available. Free access as well as professional development certificates and graduate credit are available.

Leadership

Collaborating with national, state, and local leaders to positively impact the families, educators, service providers, and others who care for, support, educate, employ or work with individuals with disabilities.

National Autism Leadership Collaborative