Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBE-Q Volume 65 Issue 2 87 DVIDB Executive Board 2020 President Past President President Elect Quarterly Editor & Director Kathleen Farrand (Director, 19-20) Arizona State University Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College 1050 Forest Mall Tempe, AZ 85287 Kathleen.Farrand@asu.edu Brian Morales (20-21) Doctoral Student, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Special Education bmoles2@uic.edu Carol Rimka (20-21) Certified Teacher of the Visually Impaired/ Deafblind Specialist Plano Independent School District Shiloh Center 3540 E. 14thSt. Plano, Texas 75074 carol.rimka@pisd.edu Website Master Jodi Reeves (20-21) Coordinator Vision Services/BVIS Northwest Regional ESD 5825 NE Ray Circle Hillsboro, OR 97124 jreeves@nwresd.k12.or.us Joan Allison (20-21) jallison@sased.org Donna Sorenson (19-20) Montana School for the Deaf & Blilnd Superintendent Ying-Ting Chiu (19-20) Department of Teaching and Learning The Ohio State University 222 Ramseyer Hall 29 W. Woodruff Ave. Columbus, OH 43210 Chiu.226@osu.edu Adam Graves (19-20) Deafblind Education Consultant, Texas School of the Blind and Visually Impaired gravesa@tsbvi.edu Directors Nicole Johnson Special Education Department Kuztown University 113 Beekey Education Building Kutztown, PA 19530 njohnson@kutztown.edu Amy T. Parker Orientation and Mobility Program Graduate School of Education, Portland State University Portland, OR atpx5@pdx.ed CAN Coordinator Kathleen Stanfa Department of Special Education 111 Beekey Education Center Kutztown University Kutztown, PA 19530 stanfa@kutztown.edu Secretary Tessa McCarthy (20-21) Coordinator of the Vision Studies Program University of Pittsburgh 5154 Wesley W. Posvar Hall 230 S Bouquet St Pittsburgh, PA 15260 tessam@pitt.edu Treasurer Karen Koehler Shawnee State University 15403 Matville Rd. Orient, OH 43146 kkoehler@shawnee.edu Mackenzie Savaiano University of Nebraska-Lincoln 202A Barkley Memorial Center Lincoln, NE 68583-0738 Msavaiano2@unl.edu Lisa McConachie Senior Director Columbia Regional Program, Portland Public Schools Lmcconac@pps.net

• Cover
• Message from the Editor
• President's Message
• Virginia M. Sowell Student of the Year Award
• Deborah D. Hatton Dissertation of the Year Award
• Teacher of the Year Award
• Exemplary Advocate Award
• Distinguished Service Award
• Strategies that Support the Inclusion of Children with Visual Impairments in Early Childhood Settings
• The Longitudinal Measurement of Communication Growth in Learners with Deafblindness
• Determining a Tactile Threshold for Learners with Deafblindness: Teachers' Communication Modality Choices
• Supporting Availability for Learning: Student-Centered Biobehavioral Assessment and Intervention for Children and Youth with Deafblindness/Multiple Disabilities
• A Curriculum for Teaching Job Search Skills to Youth with Visual Impairments