Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBE Quarterly Volume 60(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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; Lorem Ipsum Dolor Spring 2016 4 Oregon Health Sciences University, has been developing a virtual community of practice to facilitate use of the CM and to grow practitioner knowledge through dialogue. As a part of the grant, the project is also providing face-to-face training, online professional development, and coaching, to specific school sites so that teams will be able to use the CM Suite of tools to improve communication outcomes for their students. In turn, sites and teams will share information on the use of the CM tools on a regular basis, and will offer evaluation data on their satisfaction and reflections on the use of these tools. School teams and parents at selected sites across the country are the charter members of the new CM Community of Practice (CMCoP). The online platform se rves as a means of sharing partcipants' thinking and discoveries in order to grow their capacity to address the communication needs of this low incidence population of students. By discovering what practitioners are learning in a shared community space, the project seeks to expand 79

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