Division on Visual Impairments

DVI Quarterly Volume 59(1)

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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wonderful memories. This journey will be lifelong for many. Every year, we continue the planning and learning process by revisiting our vision, mission, goals, and stakeholders' views of the situation, setting a new plan of action and accountable members, providing professional development for teachers, assessing and providing intervention for children, sharing our program process with the national government officials, and we are often interviewed by several local and national television stations. This successful project has been possible through the long term efforts and partnership of Hondurans and North Americans. 60 Seven years ago, we began the process with one North American speech therapist and one Honduran doctor contemplating the possibility of providing education for children with special needs. Where are we now? As of October 2013, we had three teachers providing educational support services for 92 children with identified disabilities. These teachers are providing educational support services in the area of cognition, speech, language, hearing, general academic assistance, Honduran Sign Language instruction, and early intervention. The CIPIE program is supported through a local Honduran board of directors, a group of physicians, a special education supervisor consultant, North American advisory committee, resources from SCW, Santa Cruz de Yojoa government and the

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