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VIDBE-Q Volume 63 Issue 3
President's Message
Amy Parker, Ed.D. & COMS
Assistant Professor
Portland State University
atp5@pdx.edu
Dear DVIDB Community,
For many educators "Back-to-School" conjures images of a specific building or
classroom where students gather, bringing freshly purchased supplies and sporting new
jeans for the Fall. In our community teachers of the visually impaired, teachers of the
deafblind, and Orientation and Mobility Specialists often think of multiple students who
may be located in several different locations, many who require different kinds of school
supplies, and who represent a range of ages. Instead of a classroom, itinerant teachers
may be reorganizing the trunks of their cars or going through their inventory of
instructional materials at a regional educational center that serves students with visual
impairments and deafblindness. Teachers and O&Ms in our field are no less excited
about the start of the year, but they may be more attuned to the cost of gas at the pump
