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VIDBE - Q Volume 62 Issue 4
President's Message
Tiffany Wild, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
The Ohio State University
wild.13@osu.edu
Dear DVIDB Members,
My term as your president is ending in just a few short months. It has been a busy
two years, packed with many professional achievements for this organization. As I reflect
back o n the past 2 years many things come to mind both professionally and personally.
I started my term busy preparing for the conference in St. Louis, a conference I could not
attend since I was awaiting the arrival of my daughter. I want to thank board membe rs
for stepping up and lending me their computers to SKYPE into the board meetings and
listen into the social on Facetime. We also began working on the new standards for
teacher training programs in visual impairment. Deborah Hatton, Sandy Lewis, Holly
L awson, Carlie Rhoades, and Stacy Kelly worked during that first year gathering input,
working with leaders in our field during numerous meetings, and putting together a
document of our recommended standards to present to CEC. THANK YOU! That first
year a lso was full of work with the larger CEC organization and ensuring that our division
voices were heard.
The second year continued the work of the standards. Deborah and her committee
elected strand leaders to coordinate with volunteers to create literatur e reviews of all the