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).

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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