Expo Hall
Explore the Excitement in the Expo Hall
Get ready to engage, explore, and energize in the heart of the CEC Convention & Expo Hall! This year, we’re bringing you a variety of innovative and interactive activations designed to inspire and enhance your convention experience.
Wellness Pavilion
Sponsored by the Namaste Project and Rest from Stress
Recharge your mind and body in the Wellness Pavilion, located in the Expo Hall at booth 802. Enjoy complimentary wellness resources and short 5–7 minute activities in between your breakout sessions designed to promote relaxation and stress relief. Whether it’s journaling, drawing, or practicing mindfulness, the Namaste Project and Rest from Stress offer a calming escape from your busy convention schedule.
Tech Playground
Dive into the CEC-ISET Technology Playground, where cutting-edge assistive and instructional technology comes to life. This hands-on, immersive space is perfect for connecting with vendors, educators, and students who will demonstrate tools to support your students. Earn up to one (1) Continuing Education Unit (CEU) as you explore!
The Tech Playground is open to all attendees from Wednesday, March 12, through Friday, March 14.
CEC Connection Corner
A vibrant and welcoming space within the convention center where attendees can gather, engage, and learn about a wide range of essential topics related to the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). Whether you're new to CEC or a long-time member, this area is designed to help you navigate all that CEC has to offer.
The CEC Connection Corner is open Thursday, March 13 and Friday, March 14.
Student-Run Enterprises
Sponsored by Factor110
Support student innovation! Visit booth 1614 to discover incredible products and services created by local student entrepreneurs. These student-run enterprises highlight the creativity and business acumen of the next generation.
Sticker Bar
Who doesn’t love stickers? Swing by our Sticker Bar in the Expo Hall to pick up fun, creative designs to personalize your water bottle, laptop, phone, planner, and more.
Sustainability Spotlight
Sponsored by Amazon Business
Join our mission for a greener future! Bring your reusable water bottle to Amazon Business at booth 620 to enter a raffle for free registration to CEC 2026 in Salt Lake City. Let’s work together to make CEC 2025 more sustainable!
Tech Ed Presentations
Journify Learning
Journify Learning is the AI co-pilot for special education - it maximizes the productivity of every special educator and drives student outcomes, while helping schools and districts stay compliant. Journify has been used by special education teachers from California, Washington, and NYC across 5,000+ IEP goals. Users report saving 50% of time and rated the quality of generated personalized supports at 9.2/10.
LUMOplay
We will show how to make an interactive floor or wall system for your classroom using stuff your school already has.
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We will showcase a variety of communication tools from picture exchange, one message voice output, sequence and multi message communication devices and communication apps on the iPad.
Jotit Education Technologies
Jotit.io combines the benefits of traditional handwriting with digital tools to create an all-in-one platform for focused and effective learning. If you are using Chromebooks or tablets and Google Classroom or Canvas, you need to stop by and see this new technology.
Cognosketch
Leverage Cognosketch to tackle learning difficulties effectively. Cognosketch, an AI-powered platform, decodes children’s visual cognitive and psychomotor abilities, empowering parents and educators to address learning challenges effectively. By offering personalized insights and strategies, it helps children overcome obstacles and thrive academically.
Talkido
Talkido turns everyday objects into interactive learning tools with personalized voice recordings, helping kids develop language and communication through playful, screen-free technology.
Reading XR
Reading XR is reading fluency and comprehension evaluation tool that delivers objective results based on tracking eye movements. Test results provide valuable insight about visual issues that can cause reading inefficiencies; results which cannot be identified using traditional reading tests. Testing can be completed in as little as 15 minutes.
Rhonda Weiss Center for Accessible IDEA Data
ADAPT, the Weiss Center's Accessible Data Analysis and Publishing Tool, is a freely available, cloud-based tool that streamlines the understanding and use of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Part C and B data. ADAPT helps state education agencies create reports that are accessible, usable, and manipulatable by everyone, including individuals with disabilities.
LessonPix
LessonPix is an affordable, easy to use web-based tool for finding and creating resources to support a wide range of student learning needs. Create communication boards, visual supports, learning games, curriculum resources and more for only $36 a year for an individual user license. Group discounts are available. https://lessonpix.com/
Lessi AI
The Lessi Classroom is an AI-powered workspace designed for educators who support exceptional learners. The platform helps teachers and case managers synthesize relevant information to generate customized lesson plans, assessments, student practice materials, parent communications, and more.
TouchMath
TouchMath is an explicit, multisensory math program for students who struggle with foundational math and abstract concepts from preschool through transition. Aligned to state and extended standards, TouchMath is used in special education programs in self-contained, resource, and inclusion classrooms throughout the country and as an effective, supplemental math solution for Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions.