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Visual Impairment, including Blindness
Office Hours
Sound Bites for 2023-2024 are complete. Tanni Anthony will be providing Sound Bites for the 2024-2025 school year. Stay tuned for details.
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.
Some sessions will be restricted to teachers of students with visual impairments (TVIs).
Register for Sounds Bites - link to be provided in 2024-2025
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
Activities / Careers
- Activities / Careers
- Regional Low Vision Evaluations
- Keeping in Touch Newsletter
- Professional Learning
- Education Careers
Resources
- Resources
- Info and Resources for Families
- Scholarship Information
- Websites for families and educators
Related Links
- Colorado Services for Children and Youth with Combined Vision and Hearing Loss Project
- Deafblindness (combined vision and hearing loss)
- NIMAS/NIMAC
- Orientation and Mobility
- Specific Learning Disability (SLD)
For more information on Visual Impairment including Blindness, please contact:
Tanni Anthony, Blindness/Visual Impairment Specialist
Phone: 303-503-4647
Email Tanni Anthony
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