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VIDBE-Q.63.3.Summer.2018

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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43 VIDBE-Q Volume 63 Issue 3 teaching students with deafblindness. However, working with students with deafblindness is inferred in standard 1. Specific standards related to students with multiple disabilities are found in standard 4 and 5. Specific types of blindness/visual impairment, including cerebral/cortical visual impairment, are referenced in standards found in standards 1 and 5. *Please note that throughout the document, the term, students with visual impairments includes all students TVIs serve, as long as they qualify for services. The larger CEC organization would not allow us to name each visual condition and additional disability in the standards; the list would be too long. Therefore, TVIs should be trained to teach all students likely to be represented on an assigned case-load, including students with multiple disabilities and those students who have specific types of visual impairment. Specific standards for teaching students with deafblindness will be updated in the upcoming years. 5. How often are standards updated? When will be the next update? Each specialty set should be updated, ideally, every seven years. Sometimes this frequency of revision is not always the possible. It is anticipated that our next set of standards should be updated in 2026. 6. Since the Knowledge and Skill items are combined with CEC's Initial Common Specialty Items (ICSI) to produce a complete set of standards, what is the process for reviewing and updating the ICSI? CEC has a set of rules and guidelines for updating all standards. They can be found at: https://www.cec.sped.org/~/media/Files/Standards/CEC%20Initial%20and%20Ad vanced%20Specialty%20Sets/2017%20Specialty%20Set%20Validation%20Man ual.pdf 7. What is the difference between the CEC's Division on Visual Impairment and Deafblindness (DVIDB) Initial Specialty Set: Blind and Visual Impairments and the AER Core Standards and TVI Standards? CEC standards reflect the views of the field in accordance to the guidelines set forth by the CEC organization. AER Core Standards and TVI Standards reflect the views of the field in accordance to the guidelines set forth by AER. AER and CEC are two different organizations with different guidelines on standards and standards development.

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