Programs for Classrooms
All Academics
Be Good People incorporates CASEL's SAFE elements. Its instructional features are common among among evidence-based curriculums and it is closely aligned with state SEL standards.
Finding curricular materials for students on the spectrum can be a taxing chore. To facilitate this process, IRCA staff have compiled resources for educators, parents, students, transitioning individuals with disabilities, and policymakers and stored them all in one place.
Our mission is to make learning and teaching easy and fun by providing superior educational products, professional development, and materials to educators and families.
Direct Instruction (DI) is a model for teaching that emphasizes well-developed and carefully planned lessons designed around small learning increments and clearly defined and prescribed teaching tasks. It is based on the theory that clear instruction eliminating misinterpretations can greatly improve and accelerate learning.
Overcoming Obstacles is a Free, Award-Winning & Research-Based K-12 Life Skills Curriculum.
Structured teaching is a visually based approach to creating highly structured environments that support individuals with disabilities in a variety of educational, community, and home settings.
The Styer-Fitzgerald Program provides teachers with the most comprehensive special education program on the market enabling students to be as independent as possible while eliminating repetitive busy work.
Our suite of special education curriculum software offers students with moderate to severe disabilities equitable and inclusive access to the general education curriculum and the individualized interventions that support their success.
The STAR Program teaches children with autism the critical skills identified by the National Research Council. The ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis) instructional methods of discrete trial training, pivotal response training and teaching functional routines form the instructional base of this comprehensive program for children with autism.
Unique Learning System is a one‑of‑kind solution designed specifically to help students with special learning needs master their state’s extended standards. From one convenient, cloud‑based platform, educators deliver differentiated, standards‑aligned content enhanced by powerful assessments, data tools, and evidence‑based instructional support.
Literacy
The Edmark Reading Program has long helped students who need an alternative to phonics learn to read. The key to this success is the program’s use of a carefully sequenced, highly repetitive word-recognition method combined with errorless learning.
Math
TouchMath was founded by a teacher, and we continue to create the tools that lead our industry in ease of adoption, uniformity of deployment, efficacy, student success, and math confidence. Decades of research show the broad effectiveness of TouchMath and explain why our approach works for so many students.
Social Skills
Four Research Based, K-12 Social Skills Programs that focus on Foundational Social Skills, Advanced Social Skills, Critical Thinking for Well-Being, and Career Exploration/Life Skills.
Using Evidence-Based Video Modeling to make ideas and concepts understandable to students with special needs and autism.
The Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS®) is world-renowned for providing evidence-based social skills programs to preschoolers, adolescents, and young adults who are interested in developing and maintaining close friendships.
Skillstreaming employs a four-part training approach—modeling, role-playing, performance feedback, and generalization—to teach essential prosocial skills to children and adolescents. Each book provides a complete description of the Skillstreaming program, with instructions for teaching a wide variety of prosocial skills.
The Social Thinking Methodology supports an individuals' social, emotional & academic learning, whether neurotypical or Neurodivergent, with or without diagnosis. The materials are helpful for students with solid to strong expressive and receptive language skills in mainstream and special education. They can be used across developmental ages to support the development of social competencies, flexible thinking & social problem solving to improve: conversation & social connection, executive functioning, friendship & relationship development, perspective taking, self-regulation, and Social Thinking Vocabulary.