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VIDBE-Q.64.1.Winter.2019

A quarterly newsletter from the Council for Exceptional Children's Division on Visual Impairments containing practitioner tips for Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments, Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and other professionals.

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16 VIDBE - Q Volume 6 4 Issue 1 The framework of the assessment was formalized and detailed in a CD ROM (van Dijk & Nelson, 2001) and a journal article (Nelson, et al., 2002). In 2009, it was published by the American Printing House fo r the Blind in a user - friendly manual format. However, because the assessment process is a holistic model and is guided by child interests, there are no standard materials or instructions. In an attempt to discover if practitioners could implement the ass essment with fidelity to the assessment methods, and come to reliable or consistent conclusions, a study was conducted in 2010 by Nelson, Janssen, Oster, & Jayaraman. The study concluded that after a half day training, practitioners, on average, were able to implement the assessment with fidelity and reach similar conclusions in all assessment areas. At the 2019 conference of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), Dr. Catherine Nelson, Associate Professor at the University of Utah and long - time collab orator of Dr. Jan van Dijk, will present a training on the assessment in a preservice workshop sponsored by the American Printing House for the Blind and the Division of Visual Impairments and Deafblindness (DVIDB). The workshop will be held on the morning of January 29, 2019.

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