VIDBE-Q 2025 Volume 70 Issue 3
From Surviving to Thriving: The Impact of Family Education and support
Programs she will share information on how support programs for parents can help
families with children who are blind and low vision build resilience. We hope that
you will make time on August 28 at 4:00PM ET on your calendar so that you can
participate in this impactful presentation.
Make sure also that you plan some time to join us October 27 at 4:00PM ET
as our President-Elect, Dr. Beth Jones and our membership co-coordinator Dr.
Belinda Rudinger share their presentation entitled: Powerful Partnerships:
Improving Family-School Relationships for Students with Visual Impairments or
Deafblindness. This presentation will provide examples of case studies that
illustrate how itinerant TSVIs can learn to build strong, trusting relationships with
parents of students who are blind, visually impaired, and DeafBlind.
Finally, if you have not already booked your ticket to Birmingham, Alabama
for Getting In Touch with Literacy in November, I would highly encourage you to
try to attend that event as well. I have heard from many TSVIs over the years who
describe Getting In Touch with Literacy as their favorite conference and we have
no doubt that this year will only add to that sentiment. Several leaders from the
DVIDB board and membership have worked very hard to put together a great
program for this year's conference and we are very proud to be one of the primary
sponsors of this event. There is still time to register for the conference which will
