VIDBE-Q Volume 65 Issue 4
This issue ends with an article by Dr. Eileen Bischof, who coordinates a
teacher of students with visual impairments and orientation and mobility specialist
teacher preparation program. She shares her experience launching new
professionals into their careers and challenges readers to consider the roles they
can play to support pre-service and new in-service teachers in their journeys to
become ECC teachers.
I hope this issue offers you the opportunity to consider the role you play in
providing appropriate ECC instruction to all children with visual impairments. I
challenge you to try something new to support quality ECC instruction. Implement
a teaching strategy shared by one of the authors, advocate for the Cogswell-Macy
Act, reach out the new TVI in your district, or offer to supervise a student teacher.
Help us move toward the goal Dr. Hatlen set for us years ago: comprehensive
instruction in all nine areas of the ECC for all children with visual impairments.
