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During this Webinar, Dr. Rowland, from the Oregon Health & Science University, will share the results of a 5-year study of best practices for assessing communication and learning skills in young children who are deaf-blind including data on attitudes and recommendations of professionals and family members regarding the assessment process, as well as an authentic approach to assessment for young children who are deaf-blind.

Target Audience

This Webinar is targeted specifically to all Deaf-Blind Project Director’s and staff, OSEP’s Deaf-Blind portfolio work group, as well as personnel preparation faculty and practitioners.

In this webcast, Barbara Miles, a well-known author and lecturer, discusses the unique function hands serve for individuals who are deafblind. For people with vision and hearing impairments, hands become eyes, ears, and a voice. Barbara’s realization that hands have so many critical roles changed the way she interacts with the hands of children who are deafblind.

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Here is more information from CDBS’ website:

Online Introduction to Interveners (released on 5/17/10) is a stand-alone, FLASH-based learning module that gives basic information about interveners. The module takes about 45 minutes to complete. Paraeducators, family members, teachers, administrators and others can learn about:

• The nature of deaf-blindness
• The roles and responsibilities of interveners
• The role of teachers, family members, and administrators when working with interveners
• The development of intervention as a profession

Find it here:

www.cadbs.org/oliti/

-          The award went to Cyral Miller. Amy Parker, our chair-elect, read her nomination and gave the award to her fellow Texan.

-        I nominate Cyral Miller, who is the Outreach Director for Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (TSBVI) and long time coordinator of the Deaf-Blind Project for the award. Cyral has been an advocate for alternate paths to literacy for many years. She has also lead some great training on self-determination. She is a mentor and supporter to many leaders in the field like: Robbie Blaha and Craig Axelrod.

Check back soon. In our next posts we’ll be highlighting some of the past award winners.

-          The award went to the late Dawn Saunders. Julie Durando read the following nomination by Emily Taylor-Snell -

-          I nominate the late Dawn Saunders of the Florida Department of Education for the Samuel Gridley Howe Award for Outstanding Practice.  We lost Dawn in early June, 2010 after a courageous battle with breast cancer.  Even during her treatments, she continued to serve as the DOE consultant for Vision and Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing.  Dawn provided many years of leadership on the Vision National Agenda, helping to craft several position papers for the need of professional development and increasing the number of people to our field.  She was instrumental in the development of the Usher Screening materials to be rolled out later in 2011 in Florida.

–          Dawn was a collaborator who sought to bring people together to solve problems and never lose the focus of serving children and their families.  Dawn helped to lead a statewide workgroup for developing a series of training and supports for early intervention providers to serve families of children who are D/HH and Deaf-Blind.  Dawn was also part of a team to provide a series training on a modified QPVI (Quality Programs in Visual Impairments developed by Nancy Toelle).  This training initiative is called Building Local Capacity for Visual Impairment and has been conducted in the panhandle of FL and in south Fl in the Miami area.  The team, in Dawn’s spirit of get it done, will begin meeting this week to plan the next series of training in Central FL for 2010-2011.

–          Dawn represented children and youth with hearing loss, vision loss and deaf-blindness on many statewide and national committees.  Two such committees included the Governor appointed FL Coordinating Council for Deaf/Hard of Hearing(FCCDHH) and FL Network of Deaf-Blindness (FNDB).  Two accomplishments of FNDB is the outgrowth of a consumer –driven 5013c organization, FL Deaf-Blind Association.  That group now has gotten the Governor’s Proclamation for Helen Keller Deaf-Blind Awareness Week in 2009 and 2010, and a presenter who is deaf-blind at the Vision Summit 2010 in Tallahassee supporting the work of the Vision Caucus for legislative support.

–          These are but a few of the many contributions Dawn has made to the field.  Her greatest gift was herself; knowledgeable, supportive, leading and partnering and always brimming with energy, a love of life and for the people we serve.  Dawn will be deeply missed, but her spirit lives on!

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Title: The Five Day Experience: Deafblind Young Adults in Action

Presenters: Virginia Jordan, B.A., Athens, GA,  Kelvin Crosby, San Diego, CA,  Jason Corning, Beloit, WI

Date: Friday, July 23rd 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

In this presentation, three deafblind young adults will share their experiences while participating in a summer college course. The course took place at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. and presented the students with opportunities to advocate for the deafblind community at Capitol Hill, including a special meeting with President Obama

Presentation Title: Journey to Uganda: Empowering Deafblind Young Adults in Leadership Roles
As a continuing part of collective efforts to empower young adults who are deafblind, a team attended the Helen Keller World Conference in Kampala, Uganda. This trip was related to a participatory action research study with a group of young adults with deafblindness in the United States.

Presenters: Amy Parker, Ed.D., Lubbock, TX, Virginia Jordan, Athens, GA,  Ashle Wilson, Lubbock, TX,  George Odongo, Lubbock, TX

We would like to enlist your help to find moderators for the multiple disabilities/deafblind division sessions. Follow the link above, look through the schedule,  find a session you wish to attend, click on link at the bottom of the description of the session to sign up to moderate.  It is quite simple!

We would appreciate any assistance you can provide in reaching out to the members of your division and other colleagues who will be attending.

Thank you very much in advance!

On Friday July 23rd at 915am check out the latest on this instrument and its use to help us better understand learners with CVI. Get your seat early, this is sure to be a popular session.

Title: Reliability and Validity of the CVI Range: An Instrument Designed to Evaluate the Extent of Effect of Cortical Visual Impairment

Presenters: Christine Roman Lantzy, Ph.D., Allison Park, PA,  Sandra Newcomb, Ph.D., Upper Marlboro, MD

This joint presentation will include the results of a study to examine the reliability of The CVI Range conducted by Sandra Newcomb, Ph.D..  The CVI Range was developed by Christine Roman, Ph.D. and is used as a functional vision assessment of individuals who have CVI.