Division on Visual Impairments

DVI Quarterly Volume 58(4)

A quarterly newsletter from the Council for Exceptional Children's Division on Visual Impairments containing practitioner tips for Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments, Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and other professionals.

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fragile, some are on home hospital, while others attend charter schools with a homeschool component. As an itinerant teacher of the visually impaired and Orientation and Mobility Specialist for the county office of education, I serve students in three different school districts this year. I appreciate that each day is as different as each student is unique, and I help to work through challenges and share in successes when providing services to such an array of students with very individualized needs. For some students, attending school in itself is a feat given their complicated medical conditions. Others are present each day, showing great perseverance as they balance lessons in both general education and the expanded core curriculum. I, too, must balance the variety of roles I play on their IEP teams. My main focus is to level the playing field and advocate for my students. Along with that, I am eager to share my excitement of how technology has served as a bridge for some of my students, using braille input/print output in their general education classrooms. Technology has also given me the tools to spotlight students' abilities and successes with their teachers and families. 26 Technology is helping to bridge print and braille for my fourth grade student who is a dual media learner at a charter school. While he is able to read extra-large font, results of his learning media assessment determined that braille will be his most efficient way of reading. He uses an Acrobat video magnifier to access print at near and distant in the core content areas. We work together for an hour each day as he learns the braille code using the APH Building on Patterns braille curriculum and the mechanics of reading

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