RESEARCH CENTERS

The Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) has funded six research centers and a coordination center to investigate and implement reading and behavior intervention models for students in Grades K-3. Each of the six research centers is implementing interventions at three levels: primary, secondary, and tertiary. Primary-level interventions are provided to all students in a school; secondary-level interventions are provided to students who are identified as being at risk or did not respond to the primary intervention; tertiary-level interventions are provided to students identified as having a disorder or who did not respond to the secondary-level intervention. Within the context of this multiple-level intervention framework, some centers are implementing behavior-only interventions, some centers are implementing reading-only interventions, and other centers are implementing a combination of behavior and reading interventions. Below is a list of the six participating centers in this multisite research initiative.

Centers Implementing Both Reading & Behavior Interventions

• Center for Early Intervention in Reading and Behavior to Improve the Performance of Young Children, University of Kansas
• Behavior and Reading Improvement Center, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

Centers Implementing Behavior Interventions

• Center for At-Risk Children's Services, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Research and Demonstration Center on School-Wide Behavior Support, University of Oregon College of Education

Centers Implementing Reading Interventions

• Center for Improving Reading Competence Using Intensive Treatments Schoolwide (Project CIRCUITS), University of Oregon
• Preventing Reading Difficulties: A Three-Tiered Intervention Model, University of Texas - Austin