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VIDBE - Q Volume 6 4 Issue 1
Ima ge 1 . Deborah Hatton
Carlie Rhoads
M.Ed., TVI, doctoral candidate, Vanderbilt University
carlie.r.rhoads@vanderbilt.edu
Deborah Hatton changed my life with just one phone call. I had
cultivated a relationship with her when I was earning my master's degree at
Vanderbilt University and working for the visual disabilities department; we
kept in touch after I graduated and I was workin g as a special educator. I
was unhappy with my current job and not sure what to do next when
Deborah asked me a question that would forever change everything for me,
"why don't you come and work with me?" Nothing
would be the same for me after that!
I spent the next four years working closely
with Deborah, oftentimes sequestered in her office
alongside her for hours. I entered with a basic
knowledge about sensory impairments
and under her tutelage, I learned almost everything that I currently know
Dr. Deborah Hatton:
In Memory of a Mentor, Colleague, and Friend
