Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBEQ 66.3 Summer 2021

A quarterly newsletter from the Council for Exceptional Children's Division on Visual Impairments containing practitioner tips for Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments, Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and other professionals.

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VIDBE-Q Volume 66 Issue 3 strategies which honor personal choice and preference that can be used right away by the people in their lives and increase the confidence and comfort levels of general educators and community members who may have never experienced first-hand interaction with a person who is deaf, hard of hearing, blind, or visually impaired. "People may not realize it, but eye contact, body language, and other environmental cues all contain information," explains Christine Croyle, Program Director for the Outreach Center for Deafness and Blindness at OCALI. "When a person's vision or hearing is affected, part of the information is missing." As educators and family members of children who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, or visually impaired, we understand the importance of providing access to the environments where we learn and grow. We know that building awareness about who and what are around us helps us build connections with others. We also know that the number of people who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, or visually impaired is a such small percentage of society, that a person's only experience may be through what they have seen on TV, in the movies, or on social media—showing one person, in one place, at one time, which limits perspective.

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