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For the students we worked with, quality of life was having a
successful future outside of the campus boundaries.
The independence of the students at the Florida School for the
Deaf and Blind was very impressive. Much of this independence is
a result of an Expanded Core Curriculum. (The Expanded Core
Curriculum focuses on the concepts and skills that often require
specialized instruction with students who are visually impaired in
order to compensate for decreased opportunities to learn
incidentally by observing others.) We were captivated by this new
kind of teaching and learning. This is why we wanted to discuss and
share the extended core curriculum with others, especially those
interested in visual impairments.
We began by preparing an extremely large poster. None of us
had any experience in designing this. As you can imagine, this was
not easy, especially considering group scheduling conflicts. At times
it was very stressful, frustrating, and overwhelming; but in the end,
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