Technical assistance is a service provided to a professional group, agency, classroom or school district. This level of assistance is for the purpose of offering specific intervention strategies that can modify or enhance the outcomes within a designated setting. Technical assistance may occur after participants have attended training and want help applying what they learned.
Other types of technical assistance might be in the form of school district system change efforts. The focus of technical assistance is not any one individual, but rather on the general service delivery issues in a setting. Assistance may be in the form of phone contacts, visits, meetings and research and resource dissemination.