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 placements include residential schools, and hospital or home settings (Nelson, Bruce, & Barnhill, in press). Because students who are deafblind may be served in various settings that are situated in different service delivery systems, both teachers of the deafblind and interveners also provide services in these diverse contexts, including some home and community-based environments, and are sometimes paid through different systemic funding streams. If students who are deafblind are to fully partake in their educational programming, professionals from multiple disciplines should obtain knowledge about deafblindness and its implications. They must also share disciplinary knowledge across all collaborative team members. Such disciplines include Orientation & Mobility Specialists, Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Pathologists (Therapists), Augmentative and Alternative Communication specialists, Adaptive Physical Education Specialists, Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments, Teachers of Students who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing, Audiologists, Interpreters, and Interveners (Nelson, Bruce & Barnhill, in press). Two distinct levels of teaching personnel have been identified as particularly valuable to the education of children of who are deafblind. The

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