Visual Impairment: Statewide Activities / Education Careers

Statewide Activities

Regional Low Vision Evaluation Clinics

Five regional clinics are sponsored, through IDEA funds, in the western, southern, metro, and northern areas of the state. These clinics are available to Colorado public school students with an Individualized Education Program (IEP) who qualify under the eligibility category of “visual impairment, including blindness.”

Paperwork for the LVE Clinic includes:

Please reach out to Roberta Curtis for questions.

To help students and their parents prepare for a Colorado Low Vision Clinic, the CSDB Outreach Program has created a video entitled An Introduction to a Colorado Low Vision Evaluation Clinic.

Keeping in Touch (KIT) Newsletter

**Please email Roberta Curtis if an alternate version of this document is needed.

2024-2025 Issues

Professional Learning (Blindness/Visual Impairment)

2024 Colorado Department of Education State Conference on Visual Impairment, including Blindness

Please join us for a full two-day presentation for the CDE State Conference on Blindness/Visual Impairment. This in-person training will focus on the understanding, tools, and skills necessary for designing an accessible academic experience for children with CVI. Academics is treated broadly as encompassing everything from counting and recognizing letters, through advanced mathematics and reading comprehension. Participants will explore and use the CVI Ally framework (forthcoming from Perkins Publications) as a tool for guiding the team in understanding and addressing CVI’s impact on a student’s school day.

Dates: September 20-21, 2024

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

In person at Lowry Conference Center at 1061 Akron Way, Denver 80230

Prester: Matthew Tietjen is a teacher of students with visual impairments who has worked extensively to ensure research and evidenced-based practices are provided to school-age students with cortical / cerebral visual impairment (CVI). He has contributed to the development of screening and assessment tools, as well as effective specially designed strategies to support access to the general education curriculum.

BVI Conference Registration CLOSED

Education Careers Working with Students

Braille Textbook Transcriber

• National Federation of the Blind (NFB): Braille Transcriber Description

Licensed and Endorsed Special Education Specialist: Visually Impaired/Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments (TVI)

• Definition and Role of a TVI (PDF)

Licensed and Endorsed School Orientation and Mobility Specialist (COMS)

• Related Service: Orientation and Mobility

Licensure information in Colorado

• ​For information about the endorsement requirements for the Special Education Specialist: Visually Impaired Ages Birth-21 (9.02), go to the Endorsement Requirements page
• For information about the endorsement requirements for the School Orientation and Mobility Specialist Ages 0-21 (11.03), go to the Endorsement Requirements page

University

• University of Northern Colorado Teacher Training Program in Orientation and Mobility
• UNC Masters Program: Special Education - Visual Impairment

For more information on state-wide activities, Education Careers or Professional Development for Visual Impairment including Blindness, please contact:

Tanni Anthony, Blindness/Visual Impairment Specialist
Phone:  303-503-4647
Email Tanni Anthony