Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBE-Q 65.1 Winter 2020

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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VIDBE-Q Volume 65 Issue 1 knowledge of the specialty area. The CEC liaison is responsible for collaborating with the Validation Team (VT) to obtain an appropriate sample of individuals to respond to the validation survey" (p. 2). The data from this survey is analyzed and returned to the VT for review, reporting, and to finalize the set. All reports on the process and the final published set are shared at our conventions, journals, publications, and on our website. The revalidation of the knowledge and skills competencies dovetails with the important community work that supports national legislation called the Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act, which formally acknowledges both the roles of teachers of the deafblind and interveners in the education of students who are deafblind. The concept paper published in our Winter, 2020 quarterly, will be used to have conversations with external agency partners and is being shared to frame the need for such personnel standards to meet the educational needs of students who are deafblind. Join us at our international convention in Portland, Oregon on February 7th where we will be hosting our Community Forum: "Revisiting the Teacher of the DB and Intervener Standards: A Participatory Process". For more information about the CEC's process for creating standards within its Division structure and through a consensual validation process, visit the

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