VIDBE-Q Volume 67 Issue 4
including the services of an intervener, is an appropriate related service for a
child and is required to enable the child to receive FAPE, the Team's
determination must be reflected in the child's IEP, and the service must be
provided at public expense and at no cost to the parents. 20 U.S.C. ยง
This journal is the first of its kind to be dedicated exclusively to interveners
and their role with individuals who are deafblind. We are indebted to the Visual
Impairment and Deafblind Education Quarterly (VIDBE-Q) for this opportunity to
inform, educate, advocate, clarify, support, and validate the intervener practice as a
critical individualized support for children and youth who are deafblind.
This edition is intentionally organized to begin with the children and youth
who have combined vision and hearing loss, and who are at the center of all we
do. It begins with a real life example of how intervener services can work
successfully in the educational system, as described by IEP team members. The
journal then progresses naturally, as articles are dedicated to a deafblind consumer,
to families of individuals who are deafblind, to interveners themselves, to state
deafblind technical assistance projects and the national technical assistance center,
to higher education intervener training, and finally, to advocacy efforts. It was not
possible to include all of the information that exists about interveners in this
journal, but efforts were made to involve as many stakeholders as possible, with 37
authors contributing their perspectives and experiences to this edition.
