ED Announces FY 2006 IDEA Discretionary Grant Competitions

(06/08/06)

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is now inviting applications for new awards for FY 2006 which provide funding opportunities for ASHA members involved in personnel preparation of individuals who will work with children in the following priority areas: 

• Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities—Combined Priority for Personnel Preparation
• Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities—Preparation of Leadership Personnel
• Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities—Interdisciplinary Training in Analysis of Large-Scale Databases

Different from previous years, the Combined Priority for Personnel Preparation support projects under the following five focus areas:

1. Training Personnel to Serve Infants, Toddlers and Pre-school Age Children with Disabilities;
2. Training Personnel to Serve School Age Children with Low Incidence Disabilities;
3. Training Personnel to Serve School Age Children with High-Incidence Disabilities;
4. Training Personnel to Provide Related Services, Speech/Language Services, and Adapted Physical Education to Infants, Toddlers, Children and Youth with Disabilities; and
5. Training Personnel in Minority Institutions to Serve Infants, Toddlers, Children and Youth with Disabilities.
   

The long-awaited notices appeared in the June 5, 2006 Federal Register. Please visit http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fedreg/a060605c.html for more information on these grant application packets, including: key dates, funding information for each of the competitions, and information on how to request an application package (paper or electronic). Applications for all the above competitions just became available on June 5, 2006 and the deadline for transmittal of applications is July 5, 2006.
 
For more information, please contact Catherine D. Clarke, ASHA’s Director of Education and Regulatory Advocacy, by phone at 800-498-2071, ext. 4159, or via e-mail at cclarke@asha.org; or for grant specific questions contact Sharon Moss, ASHA’s Director of Research Resources and Advocacy, by phone at 800-498-2071, ext. 4132, or via e-mail at smoss@asha.org.