Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBE-Q 64.3 Summer 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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12 VIDBE-Q Volume 64 Issue 3 impairments: teaching. I am a city-wide teacher of students with visual impairments and a certified orientation and mobility specialist with Chicago Public Schools. With the third largest school district in the United States, we are a sizeable department of teachers of students with visual impairments. We see a wide range of students and a gamut of placements from neighborhood schools, charter schools, selective enrollments and programs designed for students with visual impairments. Our students are as diverse as the city of Chicago, and the question of how the needs of these students are met by the educational system is what first interested me in a research program. Currently at UIC, I am a doctoral student in the Special Education department working with Daniel M. Maggin, PhD. I have the privilege of being a fellow in the Special Education Leaders for Urban Centers of Tomorrow (SELECT) project. The focus of the SELECT program is to further explore the urban-context-specific aspects of special education through a lens of promoting special education leadership in school environments. I have been incredibly lucky to study with a cohort group that encompasses a wide range of special education teachers and administrators. With this cohort from a diverse series of backgrounds and

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