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(EL VISTA™) will serve as a model program to inform training
efforts. Three critical components are described including design,
content, and practicum.
Design
The EL VISTA™ program was modeled after an earlier OSEP-
funded personnel development project awarded to Illinois State
University—AIM To Be Ahead™(AIM). AIM provides training to
teachers of the deaf, speech-language pathologists and
audiologists to provide effective services to infants and toddlers with
hearing loss and their families through the Part C Early Intervention
system. Both AIM and EL VISTA™ were designed so that trainees
could complete the training program while working full-time in an
educational setting.
The EL VISTA™ program was not designed to pull TVIs and
O&Ms out of their teaching jobs and into early intervention. Rather,
by increasing the number of EIVI providers, it is hoped that a TVI or
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