Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBE Quarterly Volume 59(5)

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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Pennsylvania School Teams 'Kickoff' Open Hands Access (OHOA) Intervener Module Training Molly Black, Family Consultant, PA Deaf-Blind Initiative Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network, MBlack@pattan.net Tina Hertzog, Retired Teacher of the Visually Impaired and Independent Deaf-Blind Consultant, trhertzog@verizon.net Patti McGowan, Family Consultant, PA Deaf-Blind Initiative Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network, pmegowan@pattan.net During the summer PaTTAN Low Incidence Conference 2014, The Pennsylvania Deaf-Blind Initiative 'kicked off' the Open Hands/Open Access (OHOA) Module Training for Interveners and Educational teams with six teams across the Commonwealth. As is described on the National Center on Deaf- Blindness website, "the Open Hands/Open Access (OHOA) Intervener Learning Modules are a national resource designed to increase awareness, knowledge, and skills related to intervention for students who are deaf-blind and are being served in educational settings (ages 3 through 21)". Although "kickoff" is a word typically used in the fall to indicate the start of the football game, our team in Pennsylvania has been invested in the effort to advance the intervener practice for several years. We want to share a bit about our journey to help create and use the OHOA modules to meet the needs of students and families in our state. The idea of intervention with students with deafblindness is not new to Pennsylvania. Since 2010, the Pennsylvania Deaf-Blind Initiative has been engaged in team training and direct technical assistance that focuses on the role intervention 41

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