Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBE-Q Volume 64 Issue 4 7 Amy Parker, Ed.D. & COMS Assistant Professor, Portland State University, atp5@pdx.edu Welcome to Fall and we hope that your year is settling into a productive routine for you and for those you are serving. There are few educational initiatives that have had such positive longitudinal impacts as early identification and intervention for young children with disabilities and their families (Hebbeler & Spiker, 2016). Nearly 33 years ago, Congress established a comprehensive national program to serve infants, toddlers and their families which is a part of the President's Message

• Cover
• Message from the Guest Editor
• President’s Message
• Call to Action: The Babies Count National Registry of Infants and Toddlers with Visual Impairment
• Building our Early Childhood Training Programs on Aligned Standards of Practice
• Teleintervention as a Service Delivery Model for Families of Young Children with Visual Impairment in Early Intervention
• It’s More than a Touch: Early Tactual Development in Infants and Toddlers
• Early Intervention Services Through an Infant Mental Health Lens
• Momma Bear and Bootstraps: Using Poetry to Represent the Power of Parent to Parent Social Support