VIDBE-Q Volume 67 Issue 4
vision training. Deaf + blind does not equal deafblind. For that reason, I did not
have a positive experience in my early high school years.
As an adult, I now realize how important interveners are to children who are
deafblind. So I would do anything I could to ensure that interveners are accessible
to deafblind children everywhere. For example, during and after my college years,
I worked to support the Cogswell-Macy bill to make interveners more accessible to
deafblind children. I testified to include the definition of intervener in Minnesota
state law. I have also created a PowerPoint of my life growing up with interveners
and given several presentations live and on Zoom around the country. All of this
wouldn't exist without my parents. Thank you two SO much!
