Visual Impairment, including Blindness

Office Hours

Tanni Anthony will provide Sound Bites for the 2024-2025 school year. Sound Bites provides opportunities for personnel trained to work with learners with visual impairments, including blindness, to gather once a month for professional learning and conversations on improving educational assessment and programmatic practices.

For specific details, please see the ACVREP Course Proposal for 24-25 Sound Bites.

Some sessions will be restricted to teachers of students with visual impairments (TVIs).

The dates are as follows from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.

October 16, 2024 - Transportation Toolbox
- Presenters: Dr. Tina Herzberg and Dr. Penny Rosenblum
November 13, 2024 - Teaching Self-Advocacy
- Presenters: Dr. Lauren Leiberman and Ruth Childs
December 11, 2024 - Meaningful and Measurable IEP Goals
- Presenter: Dr. Tanni Anthony and Elizabeth Webb

January 28, 2025 - Interest and Engagement in Science
- Presenters: Dr. Tina Herzberg and Dr. Mary Robbins
Feb 19, 2025 - APE for Students with Blindness/Low Vision
- Presenter: Connor Rodrigo
March 19, 2025 - Optical Strategies to Enhance Mobility
- Presenter: Dr. Kara Hanson
April 16, 2025 - Understanding Visual Field Loss in Children
- Presenter: Dr. David Simpson

2024-2025 Register for Sounds Bites

All participants must register no later than two weeks in advance for each training/conversation event.

Definition: A child with a Visual Impairment, including Blindness, shall include a child with an impairment in vision that, even with correction, adversely affects the child's educational performance to the extent that the child cannot receive reasonable benefit from general education services alone and requires the need for specially designed instruction.

ECEA Rule - Visual Impairment, Including Blindness

ECEA Act 1 CCR 301-8: Visual Impairment, Including Blindness (PDF)

Activities / Careers

Activities / Careers
- Regional Low Vision Evaluations
- Keeping in Touch Newsletter
- Professional Learning
- Education Careers

Support Documents

Guidelines and Support Documents
- Education Careers
- Guidelines
- Documents

Resources

Resources
- Info and Resources for Families
- Scholarship Information
- Websites for families and educators

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