Tennessee Educational Cooperative

School services: Tennessee Educational Cooperative's school services are being provided to eight member and non-member school systems. Services being provided are medicaid billing, occupational, physical, speech, speech and language therapy, assistive technology services, social work, extended learning, vision,interpreting, behavior and school psychology. The organization is serving approximately 600 students at any given time in all eight school systems. In addition to providing the needed school services, ltvec has successfully facilitated other Educational programs within different school systems without interrupting their local autonomy. Tennessee Educational Cooperative has collaborated several trainings needed by local area school system staff at a low cost and made it available to all educators/school systems within the state.

The Tennessee internship consortium in psychology provides doctoral level students a 2000 hour internship in a school setting to prepare them for the field of school psychology. The consortium obtained accreditation by the american psychological association (apa) in 2004. The consortium's members are school systems and higher education institutions (university of Tennessee).

Birth-to-three early intervention program: the birth-to-three program provides early intervention services to infants and toddlers in a home based setting. The program is active in loudon, monroe and blount counties in Tennessee. The services are provided to the children and families so they can acheive their developmental potential and fully participate in their community life. The program is primarily funded by the state of Tennessee's early intervention system within the Tennessee department of intellectual and developmental disabilities and serves approximately 125 families.