Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBEQ.61.3.SU.2016

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 10 work with my child, and they all bring their own unique skills and background to the table. I feel that my child has made noticeable progress with them this year, which she had not previously made in prior years when her then teacher for the visually impaired, teacher for the hearing impaired, and orientation and mobility specialist operated more independently of each other. Those individuals also didn't have a significant amount of deaf-blind training or experience . . . [The Sensory Team] has shown me that they really care about my child on a personal level. (Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, 2015) As the Region 4 RDSPD plans for next year, there is even more work to do. Determining how to expand services is the current challenge the program faces. Some additional problem-based opportunities the program is currently considering include • Ensuring that campus and district staff understand how a student qualifies as a student with deafblindness in the state of Texas; • Defining how the sensory team is involved in initial evaluations and reevaluations; • Forming methodologies for determining service time, placement, assistive technology, and accommodation recommendations for 55

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