What Is TRE All About?

The T.R.E. Center is the New York State Education Department's (VESID) Designated Assistive Technology and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Resource and Training Center for Parents, Educators, Therapists, Agencies and Anyone with Disabilities.

  The T.R.E. Center serves many puposes both for New York State and locally to school districts in the Capital Region Area.  Our main focus in our trainings and other support services is the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) initiative and Assistive Technology (AT).  We want to provide the educators, administrators, therapists, and classroom support staff and setrc trainers of New York with the best support available to perform their jobs of educating our children equally under UDL and train the trainers of the SETRC network to also support educators under the UDL umbrella.

  The T.R.E. Center receives funding from VESID(Grant) and bills School Districts to perform various services that aren't provided by the grant. The T.R.E. Center is also supported by The Capital Region BOCES, a non-profit organization with administrative, custodial support personnel and office space.

  Most of our services are aimed at training staff and trainers so educators, therapists and support staff receive much of our service. Students and parents also benefit from our services directly at times. The ages of students we serve is school age (K-12) but we also provide free information for anyone of any age in New York State. 

  The T.R.E. Center specializes in Assistive Technology and the Universal Design for Learning(UDL). To this end we have created three websites to reflect these two purposes, TRECENTER.org , UDLinNYS.org, and Atlasts.com. We hope you enjoy the free information and resources on these sites and will check out our other services.