VIDBE-Q Volume 65 Issue 1
Amy Parker, Ed.D. & COMS, Assistant Professor,
Portland State University, atp5@pdx.edu
Within the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), DVIDB provides
professional development to educators; advocates for the needs of
students with visual impairment and those who are deafblind; and develops
recognized knowledge and skills competencies for teachers and
paraprofessionals that align with recognized standards for personnel in
special education. Using a consensual validation process, the CEC
includes external partners as "associations with a direct connection to the
specialty being studied" (CEC Validation Manual, 2017, p. 2).
The current knowledge and skills specialty sets in deafblindness for
teachers and interveners were published in 2009 (Zambone & Alsop,
2009). According to the CEC Validation manual (2017): "Ideally, every
seven years, each Specialty Set should go through a re-validation process
to ensure that it is current and reflective of best practice in the field" (p. 3).
The systematic review and validation of the deeply connected knowledge
Introduction to CEC's Process for Re-Validating
Knowledge and Skills Competency Sets
