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Specialists from the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. In
addition, the itinerant teacher of the deafblind was accepted into the Dual-
Sensory Impairment Certification Program at Texas Tech University. As
confidence was building, though, a bigger challenge lay in changing
perspectives on how students could be served.
As part of the Texas ToDB Pilot Project, the team was asked to select a
focus student for the first year, so at the beginning of the 2015–2016 school
year, the team reviewed the Individual Education Plans (IEPs) for all 22
students identified by the district in the previous school year as eligible for
special education as a student with deafblindness. The review allowed team
members to objectively see, for the first time, the patterns of consultative
services being provided to all but one of the 22 students. It was during this
review that the why snuck its way into critical conversations. The team
discussed the identified education needs of the students and began to
explore the possibility that more services may be needed in order for the
students to be successful. As a result of these discussions, the team chose
as its focus student one of the 21 students who were not currently receiving
direct services.
Though creating the vision naturally began with the why, it expanded
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