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
