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VIDBE-Q Volume 63 Issue 2
Virginia M. Sowell Student of the Year Award: Carlie Rhoads
Vanderbilt University
Council for Exceptional Children
Division on Visual Impairments and Deafblindness
Presents 2018 Awards
At International Conference in Tampa, FL
The council for Exceptional Children Division on Visual Impairments and
Deafblindness is proud to present the Virginia M. Sowell Student of the Year Award to
Carlie Rhoads at the Council for Exceptional Children Convention and Expo in Tampa,
Florida, on February 8, 2018.
The Virginia M. Sowell Student of the Year Award recognizes a student who
demonstrates a commitment to the education and/or rehabilitation of individuals with
visual impairments and deafblindness. The award was named after Dr. Virginia Sowell
whose lifetime contributions to the profession impacted the lives of numerous educators
and countless children and adults with visual impairments and deafblindness.
Carlie is currently a doctoral candidate at Vanderbilt University. She is an exceptional
student who is already demonstrating leadership in our division by serving on the
licensure standards update committee for the new TVI standards; taking an active role in
editing and updating two CEC DVIDB position paper; and has recently been appointed to
represent our division in an ad hoc research committee of the larger CEC Community.
Carlie has presented at numerous conferences and has worked as a teacher assistant or
co-instructor in numerous courses at Vanderbilt University.
