VIDBE-Q 2025 Volume 70 Issue 2
event. In addition, I'd like to thank the American Printing House for the Blind
(APH) for hosting and recording the pre-conference webinar and to Allied
Instructional Services (AIS) for helping us arrange for participants to obtain
continuing education units for attending our pre-conference. Finally, I want to
recognize and say thank you to AER International and the Maryland School for the
Blind and our many university sponsors for sponsoring both the online pre-
conference and the DVIDB social at the CEC convention in Baltimore.
Speaking of the convention, we are so pleased to be able to provide you with
some of the ideas from the presentations from that event's DVIDB strand in this
issue of VIDBE-Q. If you were not able to make it to the convention this year or
were unable to attend all the sessions that you wanted to while you were there, we
hope this issue will contain valuable information you may have missed and provide
you with some ideas of practices that you can include with your own students.
Finally, thanks to CEC's recent "Access for All" membership drive many of
you receiving this issue of VIDBE-Q will be reading this publication for the first
time. For those of you who are new to our division, welcome! And for those of you
who are returning to the division after a brief hiatus, we are so glad to have you
back! As a long-time member of DVIDB, I am continuously impressed with the
quality of the articles that are included in VIDBE-Q. Thanks to the skill and
expertise of our editor, Dr. Kathleen Farrand, this publication is one of the most
