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winners which included Dr. Sandra Rosen: Distinguished Service Award, Dr.
Stacy Kelly: Exemplary Advocate Award, Robin Finley: Teacher of the Year
Award, Ying-Ting Chiu: Virginia M. Sowell Student of the Year Award, and Dr.
L. Beth Brady: Deborah D. Hatton Dissertation of the Year Award. All of our
award winners were well deserving and it was an honor to recognize you in this
capacity.
While in Portland, DVIDB was able to host a community forum on
"Revising the DVIDB Teacher of DB and Intervener Standards: A Participatory
Process" which was facilitated by Adam Graves, Dr. Amy Parker, and the DVIDB
Validation team. During this time the validation team discussed the process for
revising the specialty sets of competencies for teachers of students with
deafblindness and interveners. This hard work will continue throughout the year as
the validation team works on updating all of the standards. Thank you for all of
your hard work on this very important task.
I'm happy to announce our next webinar is on April 16
th
, 4:00 EST and will
feature Julie Maier discussing Meaningful Literacy for Students with Multi-
Sensory needs. The webinar is free to members and $15 to non-members
(https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meaningful-literacy-for-students-with-multi-
sensory-needs-tickets-96133685441). If you cannot make the live webinar you can
always log on to the members only section to view the webinar at a later date.
