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Visual Impairment: Resources
Office Hours
Tanni Anthony will be providing Sound Bites for the 2023-2024 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.
Some sessions will be restricted to teachers of students with visual impairments (TVIs).
- September 13, 2023 - Update for Eligibility Criteria for Visual Impairment, Including Blindness
- October 4 - Strategies/Resources-Nemeth/UEB for Math/Science
- November 8 - Middle School Students with BVI Accessing Technology
- December 13 - Topic to be Determined
- January 24, 2024 - Executive Functioning Needs for Students with BVI
- February 21 -College Prep Considerations for Students with BVI
- March 13 - Topic to be Determined
- April 10 - Topic to be Determined
All participants must register no later than two weeks in advance for each training/conversation event.
Information for Families of Children and Youth with a Visual Impairment
Scholarship Information
- SEE THE FUTURE FUND Scholarship Application
This application is for Colorado students who are blind/visually impaired and who are college-bound or currently in a college program. - American Foundation for the Blind
- Blinded Veterans Association
- Lighthouse International
- National Federation of the Blind
- National Federation of the Blind of Colorado
Resources
Colorado Resources and Support Services Specific to Blindness/Visual Impairment
- A Shared Vision: Partners in Pediatric Visual Impairment
- Anchor Center for Blind Children
- Audio Information Network of Colorado
- Colorado Association of the Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired (CAER) Chapter
- Colorado Center for the Blind Youth Programs
- Colorado Instructional Materials Center
- Colorado Talking Book Library
- Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind
- Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind: Student Employability
- Learning Ally
- University of Northern Colorado's teacher training program in Visual Impairment, which includes coursework in "Orientation and Mobility"
Correspondence Courses, Publication / Video Clip / Website Resources
- American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Press
- Blind Children's Center (publications)
- Family Connect (articles, videos, personal stories)
- Foundation for the Blind (products)
- Hadley School for the Blind (correspondence courses)
- National Federation of the Blind (publications)
- Paths to Literacy for Students who are Blind/Visually Impaired (literacy resources)
- Perkins School for the Blind (publications)
- Perkins School for the Blind (webcasts specific to blindness/deafblindness)
- Texas School for the Blind (handouts and publications)
- Washington State School for the Blind (video clips on blindness tips)
National Resources
- AERBVI - Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired
- ACB - American Council of the Blind
- ACVREP - Academy for Certification of Vision Rehabilitation and Education Professionals
- AFB - American Foundation for the Blind
- APH- The American Printing House for the Blind, Inc.
- BANA- Braille Authority of North America
- CEC - Division on Visual Impairment of the Council for Exceptional Children
- COSB - Council for Schools for the Blind
- LI - Lighthouse International
- NBA - National Braille Association
- NFB - National Federation of the Blind
- RRTC - Rehabilitation Research & Training Center on Blindness and Low Vision
- USABA - United States Association for Blind Athletes
International Resources
- ICEVI - International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment
- WBU - World Blind Union
For more information on Resources for Visual Impairment including Blindness, please contact:
Tanni Anthony, Blindness/Visual Impairment Specialist
Phone: 303-503-4647
Email Tanni Anthony
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