VIDBE-Q Volume 66 Issue 1
growth, development, and life skills of individuals with blindness and visual
impairments. Since its inception, the company has grown to over 160 services
providers throughout the mid and southeast and has expanded its offerings to
include teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing, occupational therapists, physical
therapists, audiologists, sign language interpreters, speech and language
pathologists and school psychologists. The company has also expanded from only
providing face-to-face services, to offering virtual services and a hybrid of the two,
as necessary for ensuring students continue to receive their needed instruction and
therapy no matter what their current learning environment may be.
When asked what being on the Inc. 5000 means to her, Ms. Walker
expresses that she is "extremely blessed by the success AIS has experienced. This
means we are continuing to impact more lives! I truly believe that our success is
due to the fact that I, along with my other administrators and service
providers, are not driven by money or gaining the next contract, but by the desire
to serve more individuals and enabling others to succeed. If we ever lose that as
our focus, I firmly believe that would all change. I am and will always be a teacher
first and a business owner second".
AIS strives to ensure that the students and adults they serve receive
appropriate, affective high-quality educational and therapy services. All members
of the AIS administrative team come from special education backgrounds and are
