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DIVERSITY is CCEC's strength. Just as each exceptional child has special needs, each geographical area within Canada contributes uniquely to the dialogue of Canadian CEC.

YOU WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN IMPORTANT MATTERS
As a CCEC member, you have multiple opportunities to increase your visibility in the field, connect with colleagues, and improve the practice of special education.

Job Bank
Career connections, CEC's Online Job Bank, makes it easy for special educators to let the people who count know of their career accomplishments and interests. The Job Bank includes a job posting service and resume referral service -each designed to match the right educator with the right job.

Opportunities to Publish
CEC offers numerous opportunities for members, including teachers, higher education professionals, researchers, and students, to publish their work. In addition to our journals, EC and TEC, and CCEC's newsletter, CEC Today, CEC also publishes books, monographs, and videos on special education issues, practices, and developments.

Opportunities to Present and Share Knowledge
CEC invites members to present at its highly-respected conferences and symposia. At our annual convention, the largest special education gatherings in the world, members present their work and practices in more than 600 sessions. Plus, CEC offers other opportunities for members to exchange ideas through online discussion forums, study groups, and other distance learning opportunities.

Advocacy
Through CEC's Children's Action Network (CAN), members can influence federal, provincial, and local policies on special education. As the voice for special education, advocates enhance their credibility, gain exposure to the field as well as the public, and make positive change for students with exceptionalities.

Leadership
CCEC offers numerous opportunities for members to assume leadership roles in the organization. Not only can members serve as officers in CEC chapters, councils and divisions, they can also participate in CEC standing committees and task forces. In addition, members with expertise in their specialty areas can serve as spokespersons for the organization.

• Journals
- Teaching Exceptional Children
- Exceptional Children
- CEC Today
- Keeping In Touch
• Specializations Divisions
• Professional Network
• Student Chapters
• Advocacy
• Resources
• Professional Development
• Savings
• Recognition
• Awards

Teaching Exceptional Children
CEC's skill-oriented journal for practitioners to keep you up-to-date on the latest proven teaching methods and ideas. Six issues each year.

Exceptional Children
The research journal for special education professionals. Comprehensive, thoroughly researched, in-depth articles about the development and education of exceptional children. You will receive four editions annually.

CEC Today
This newsletter provides news on special education at the local, state/provincial, national, and international levels.

Keeping In Touch
A newsletter published exclusively by and for Canadian CEC Members. Quarterly issues present panoramic views of special education in Canada.

Specialization Divisions
Opportunity to join CEC's 17 divisions-special organizations concentrating on a particular exceptionality or a unique aspect of special education. Open to CEC members only.

Professional Network
One membership automatically enrolls you at the local, provincial, and international levels. Opportunities to voice your concerns, discuss issues, and share a special comaderie.

Student Chapters
Student Members receive all professional journals and materials. Campus-based chapters offer special programs and encourage active participation. Full-time students enjoy special low dues rates.

Advocacy
From student chapters to provincial and federal government, Canadian CEC turns ideas into actions. Great distances and diversity do not diminish our resolve to advance programs and practices needed to discover and fulfill each child's potential.

Resources
Members discount of 35% on CEC information products and services developed to meet CEC members' professional needs. Look for semi-annual catalog listing publications, periodicals, tapes, mini-libraries, videos, and more.

Professional Development
Provincial workshops and conferences. Biennial Canadian congress-an opportunity to focus on professional growth, strengthen the Canadian CEC connection, and foster cooperation among provincial ministries of education and associated governmental agencies.

Savings
Members discounts on professional materials, services, and conferences.

Recognition
CEC's impressive record of accomplishments is second to none. CEC has advanced the frontiers of special education on behalf of the children and our profession across Canada.


CEC Professional Membership Benefits

• Three Publications: TEACHING Exceptional Children, bi-monthly; Exceptional Children and CEC Today, quarterly.

• Automatic membership in local, state/provincial, and international CEC.
Seventeen CEC divisions centered on various interests or exceptionalities, Open to CEC members only.

• Professional Development Activities including the CEC Annual International Convention, institutes, conferences, and workshops…early notice and special rates for members.

• Effective Representation at all levels of government.

• Information Service through the ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education.

• Discount of 30% on over 100 CEC Professional products and services – books, periodicals, multimedia kits and more…

• Access to latest research, practice, and products linking technology and special education.

• Savings on professional liability, term life, and other insurance through group plans.

• Opportunity to receive a major credit card.

• Investment opportunities also available – CDs and money market accounts.

Participate in Special Interest Groups

Your CCEC membership covers every aspect of special education, and you are automatically enrolled in your provincial CEC Council and local chapter. If you would like more in depth knowledge on a particular area, there are opportunities to participate in any or all of 17 specialty divisions.

Divisions keep you up-to-date on your specialty area through regularly published newsletters and journals; sponsor conferences and meetings devoted to targeted issues; facilitate provincial or regional subdivisions to provide networking opportunities; advocate for division members' interests; and promote research and career development.

Division annual dues are minimal, typically in the $20 to $40 range, depending on the division of choice.

CEC Divisions are special organizations, which concentrate on a particular exceptionality of children or unique aspect of special education. Divisions publish journals and newsletters and hold conferences and workshops for members.

• Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE) – members receive the Journal of Special Education Leadership two times each year and six newsletters.
• Council of Children with Behavioral Disorders (CCBD) – members receive four issues of Behavioral Disorders, three issues of Beyond Behavior, and six newsletters.
• Division for Research (CEC-DR) – members receive the Journal of Special Education quarterly, three newsletters, and three issues of Current Practice Alerts.
• CEC Pioneers Division (CEC-PD) – members receive three newsletters.
• Council for Educational Diagnostic Services (CEDS) – members receive Assessment for Effective Intervention and a newsletter, quarterly.
• Division for Communicative Disabilities and Deafness (DCDD) – members receive four issues of Communication Disorders Quarterly, and four newsletters.
• Division on Career Development and Transition (DCDT) – members receive Career Development for Exceptional Individuals twice yearly and three newsletters.
• Division on Developmental Disabilities (DDD) - members receive Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities quarterly and three newsletters.
• Division for Culturally Linquistically Diverse Exceptional Learners (DDEL) – members receive two issue of Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners and three newsletters.
• Division of Early Childhood (DEC) – members receive the Journal of Early Intervention and Young Exceptional Children, quarterly.
• Division of International Special Education and Services (DISES) – members receive one issue of the Journal of International Special Needs Education and three newsletters.
• Division for Learning Disabilities (DLD) – members receive Learning Disabilities Research and Practice quarterly, three newsletters, and three issues of Current Practice Alerts.
• Division for Physical and Health Disabilities (DPHD) – members receive Physical Disabilities: Education and Related Services twice yearly and four newsletters.
• Division on Visual Impairments (DVI) – members receive the DVI newsletter quarterly.
• The Association of the Gifted (TAG) – members receive the Journal for the Education of the Gifted and a newsletter, quarterly.
• Technology and Media Division (TAM) – members receive the Journal of Special Education Technology and a newsletter, quarterly.
• Teacher Education Division (TED) – members receive Teacher Education and Special Education quarterly and three newsletters.

Only CEC Members are Eligible for Membership in CEC Professional Divisions.


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