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 partners who had adopted and were cultivating the model (Zambone & Alsop, 2009). In 2011, the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) directed the National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness to develop recommendations for improving intervener services in the United States. After systematic engagement with the community, a review of relevant documents, structured focus groups, interviews, and surveys, a set of recommendations was published that was meant to provide guidance to community partners including state deafblind projects, family organizations, universities, and advocates (NCDB, 2012). One of the key recommendations centered on the development of an open-access multimedia set of modules that could be used to design comprehensive intervener training programs or used in pieces to provide greater equity and access for rural and remote communities to support the practice of intervention. Over the course of five years, 27 multimedia modules were developed using a highly participatory approach that involved cycle of development, field-testing, refinement, revision and release for state and university adoption (Parker, et. al, 2017). Since their release, a national certification system has also been developed to recognize interveners who

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