CTEBVI: A Community of Practice for
Practitioners and Parents
Yue-Ting Siu, TVI, Doctoral Candidate, UC Berkeley and San
Francisco State University, ting@tplus.education
The California Transcribers and Educators for the Blind and
Visually Impaired (CTEBVI) is a professional organization in its 55
th
year. The annual conference is always based in California, but
draws educators, alternate media specialists including transcribers,
and affiliated organizations from across the country. Local families
are always present, and a variety
of program activities feature
students and award scholarship winners.
The Organization
While policy makers, leadership personnel, higher education
faculty, and education researchers comprise the majority of
membership at other national organizations in the visual impairment
field, CTEBVI is truly a practitioners' space. Current and retired
teachers
of students with visual impairments (TVIs), transcribers,
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