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her doctoral work; The Dean's Citation of Excellence for Outstanding
Student and Outstanding Dissertation.
For over 25 years DeEtte has been working with children aged birth
to 5 with visual impairments, and their families, both as an educator and a
program administrator. She is also an adjunct faculty member in the
Visually Impaired Learner Program (VIL) and the Early Intervention/Early
Childhood Special Education Program (EI/ECSE) at Portland State
University, her alma mater for both her bachelor and master degrees. Her
early experience was at the Foundation for Blind Children in Phoenix, AZ,
but for the last 4 years she has worked for WSSB, building a program for
early support for infants and toddlers with blindness/visual impairment and
their families where one did not exist prior.
DeEtte lives in Vancouver, WA with her husband, Brett and beloved
pup, Monkey. She loves to quilt and considers this hobby a reprieve from a
busy professional travel schedule. She created an alternative qualitative
data representation of Babies Count known as "The Babies Count
Dissertation Quilt".
