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CCBD Membership Has Its Privileges 

As a member of CCBD, you’ll stay abreast of recent advances and trends in your field through your subscriptions to:

• Behavioral Disorders - Providing professionals with a means to exchange information and share ideas related to research, empirically tested educational innovations, and issues and concerns relevant to students with emotional or behavioral disorders. Published four times a year.
• Beyond Behavior - A practitioner-oriented journal focusing on issues faced by direct service providers in the field. Published three times a year.
• CCBD Newsletter - Designed to keep members informed about the organization and its activities. Published six times a year.

CCBD members have full access to the CCBD.net web site including archived  journals, newsletter, and other materials dating back over 30 years!.

CCBD also publishes highlights from its Forum conferences, monographs, and other products authored by CCBD members and addressing critical issues confronting the field. Members may purchase all CCBD products at a special discount rate. 

Collaborate, Network, and Grow with Colleagues

CCBD members enjoy many opportunities for achieving professional growth and networking with others who share their interests. CCBD sponsors sessions focusing on emotional or behavioral disorders at the CEC Annual Convention & Expo. PLUS:

• Receive advance notice and special member rates on a host of highly regarded CCBD professional development activities designed to enhance your knowledge and skills. They include forums, symposia, institutes, and biannual conferences.
• Under the auspices of CCBD’s Regional Services and Membership Program, members receive broad support through a network of dedicated professionals. Financial and other organizational assistance is provided for subdivision conferences.
• Join our Professional Learning Community by sharing with others on our Facebook, Twitter, Ning, and YouTube channels.

Serious About Special Education? You Belong in CEC

The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) works to improve the educational success of individuals with disabilities and/or gifts and talents. It is a network of more than 40,000 special education professionals. CEC members enjoy a wide variety of professional benefits including:

• TEACHING Exceptional Children, the journal of special education teaching strategies
• Exceptional Children, special education’s premier research journal
• CEC Today, our popular newsletter covering trends and issues in the field
• Access to resources, contacts, and opportunities to effect education policies and practices in your community
• Annual Convention & Expo and other professional development programs at discount rates
• Career Center with online Job Bank
• Click here for a complete list of CEC Benefits!

CEC members also benefit from CEC’s advocacy for children with exceptionalities and those who support them, CEC’s development of professional standards and cutting-edge policies, and national accreditation of university special education programs.

Throughout its history, CEC has fought successfully to ensure that children and youth with special needs get appropriate educational services and that those who work with these students have the resources, tools, and training necessary to perform their job effectively and efficiently. Your membership will enable CEC to continue its efforts to improve both the quality of programs for exceptional children and the condition of your profession.

Join Today!

CCBD membership is open to any CEC member interested in teaching children and youth with emotional or behavioral disorders. (You must be a member of CEC to join CCBD.) CCBD members include educators, parents, mental health personnel, as well as a variety of other professionals and related service providers. Students currently enrolled in a college or university program and not employed full time as a certified professional in the education profession are eligible for special student rates.

Membership Dues, click here.

Questions? Assistance?

If you have any questions about this information or need assistance, please contact the CEC Constituent Services Center toll free at: 888.232.7733, TTY 866.915.5000, or e-mail service@cec.sped.org. Representatives are available to take your call Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Eastern Time.