Division for Communicative Disabilities and Deafness
The Organization with the Personal Touch

For information on joining the Council for Exceptional Children, go to
http://www.cec.sped.org/mb/pdf/professionalapp.pdf
You may also print a copy of the membership form linked here.

Features: What you Get By Joining DCDD
1. Access to Professional Development Activities
2. Discussion List
3. Websites: DCDD and CEC
4. Journals: CDQ, EC, TEC
5. Newsletters: DCDD New Times, CEC Today

Benefits of Joining DCDD
1. All the Features and Benefits of CEC

2. A Supportive Professional Development Community

• Voice for the isolated
• Formal development yielding CEUs
• Informal development
• participation in discussion list with nationally known experts and leaders in Communicative Disabilities and Deafness
• website access
• collaboration from multiple perspectives

3. Opportunity for Professional Advancement

• Through CEUs
• "Request a Mentor" program places you in contact with a board member who can assist you in advancing to leadership positions in the Division
• Easy access to participation at the national level
• Routine contact with board members (phone line, discussion list, website)
• Board members site on several national committees such as the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities and the Council on Education of the Deaf

4. Opportunity for Creativity

• Mini-grants annually to practitioners
• YOUR opinion in the newsletter
• Theory to Practice section of journal invites members to submit articles describing application of research

5. A Larger Voice

• Strength in numbers. Tired of feeling isolated? Join your voice with others and be heard.
• Political action. Join forces with "The 800 lb. Gorilla". CEC is THE voice for special education on Capitol Hill.
• The Common Ground of Deaf Education. A place where the field can unite and work toward common goals.