Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBE-Q Volume 66, Issue 2 8 Nicole Johnson, Ed.D. Professor, Kutztown University njohnson@kutztown.edu Happy Spring Everyone! We are excited to welcome returning Division on Visual Impairment and Deafblindness (DVIDB) executive board members and newly elected leadership. Congratulations to our new executive board members including Katie Ericson, Beth Jones, & Rachel Schles. I look forward to working President's Message

• Cover Page
• Table of Contents
• Message from the Editor
• President's Message
• Virginia Murray Sowell Student of the Year
• Deborah D. Hatton Dissertation of the Year
• Teacher of the Year
• Advocate of the Year
• Distinguished Service Award
• Functional Vision Assessment: Delphi Study Results and Where We Need to Go
• The Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)/Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI) Matrix: Unique Considerations for Integrated Assessment and Intervention
• Using a Cohort Model to Address Cortical Visual Impairment in New York City
• Strategies for Teaching Tactile Tangible Symbol Systems: Case Study on a Learner with Deafblindness
• Lessons for Reading and Contributing to Research: Findings and Implications from a Descriptive Review of Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness
• Going Virtual for Students with Visual Impairments: Providing Education and Programs for Children Birth to 22
• Peer Support Arrangements for Students with Visual Impairments
• Service Determination for Students who are Blind/Visually Impaired