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VIDBE - Q Volume 62 Issue 4
Message from the Guest Editor
Mackenzie Savaiano, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Practice
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
msavaiano2@unl.edu
I would like to introduce the Winter 2017 issue of the Visual Impairments and
Deafblind Education Quarterly journal by applauding our editor, Dr. Kathleen Farrand, for
her organization and dedication to this publication. This issue focuses on access to the
general education literacy curriculum – something that has often been a challenge for
itinerant teachers of students with visual impairments. Students with VI are included in
general education more and more, with the number tripling in the last ten years, and it is
necessary for them to have appropriate access to the class reading and writing curriculum
at the same time as their peers. Collaboration between the general education teacher
and the TVI is implied, but it isn't always as consistent or as collab orative as we would
like.
This issue shares two articles about adaptations to the general literacy curriculum.
First, a look at the McGraw Hill Wonders curriculum, which is widely used in Nebraska.
Second, a case study of working with a child with CVI in a summer tutoring center. This
issue also includes an overview of the Nebraska Center for the Education of Children who
are Blind and Visually Impaired (NCECBVI) and the services they provide to students,
parents, professionals, and the state.
I hope you enjoy this issue, and I am looking forward to the CEC Convention
coming up in Tampa this February. I hope to see many of you there!
