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to selected master's students in the TVI program. Additional tuition support comes
from New York State for students in the advanced certificate programs for TVIs
and O&Ms.
Hunter College partners closely with the New York City Department of
Education (NYC DOE) to serve over 1,000 K-12 students with visual impairments
in the city. Our TVI student teachers are placed with itinerant teachers who work
across the five boroughs of NYC, which provides them with hands-on experiences
with students of all ages with all types of visual impairments. Many instructors in
our program are current NYC DOE teachers or administrators. In recent years,
Hunter has hosted the New York Deaf-Blind Collaborative and NYC DOE
community of practice on cortical visual impairment, which brings together many
Hunter alumni to improve the identification rate, teacher assessment skills and
learner outcomes. In addition to the NYC DOE, our teacher graduates work in
regional collaboratives (i.e., BOCES) and state-funded private special education
schools throughout New York. Graduates from the VRT and O&M programs work
at agencies both in NYC and nationally.
If you are interested in learning more about our programs, please visit:
education.hunter.cuny.edu/BVI or email Dr. Brady at LBrady@hunter.cuny.edu
