VIDBE-Q Volume 67 Issue 4
In spite of many efforts over the past approximately 40 years, to establish
interveners as an accepted practice for children and youth who are deafblind, there
is still a general lack of understanding about what interveners do and a lack of
acceptance of the importance of their role. I hope that, after reading this journal,
readers will come to believe as passionately as I do, that the intervener practice
needs to be more recognized, more accepted, and more implemented with children
and youth who are deafblind as part of their right to access, as mandated by
IDEA. Over and over again, I've seen the miracles that occur when children and
youth who are deafblind have intervener services. It works! We must increase our
efforts! These children can't wait!
