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Visual Impairment: Resources
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Tanni Anthony will be offering Sound Bite sessions, a Virtual Monthly Professional Learning /Conversations this Fall.
Sound Bites are 2022-23 opportunities for personnel trained to work with learners with visual impairment, 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.
The dates are as follows from 3:30 to 5:00 PM.
November 16, 2022 - Cortical Visual Impairment: Unique Considerations for Functional Vision Assessment & Learning Media Assessment with Chris Russell
December 7, 2022 - Cortical Visual Impairment: Approaches to Intervention and Educational Program Development with Chris Russell
January 18, 2023 - Tactual Math Strategies with Dr. Derrick Smith
February 15, 2023 - Cortical Visual Impairment: Considerations for Augmentative & Alternative Communication Development with Chris Russell
March 15, 2023 - Ask the Doc: Low Vision Evaluation, Tools, and Anything Else on Your Mind with Dr. Tom Theune
April 19, 2023 - Dyslexia and Visual Impairment with Kelly Bevis and Amie Davenport
May 17, 2023 - Assessment Considerations for Learners with Blindness/Visual Impairment with Cara Johnson and Tanni Anthony
View other available ESSU office hours
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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