TVI Tidbits - Volume 2, No. 18
May 13, 2010
- 2010 NEAER Fall Conference Call for Papers
- Attention TVIs and VRTs: Become O&M Certified! Increase your effectiveness and income!
- Internet Archive offers DAISY books to students with visual impairments!
- Buy or Sell Used Assistive Technology Devices!
- Overhauling NCLB: Implications for Special & Gifted Education - FREE WEBINAR SERIES (even to non-CEC Members!)
- Two Historic Legends to Enter Hall of Fame for Leaders and Legends of the Blindness Field in 2010
- Dinner in the Dark on Long Island! A Benefit for the Long Island Council of the Blind (LICB)
- TVI Opening in Boston, MA
The following information is for your information and not an endorsement of any product or service:
- 2010 NEAER FALL CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS
- Attention TVIs and VRTs: Become O&M Certified! Increase your effectiveness and income!
- Internet Archive offers DAISY books to students with visual impairments!
- Buy or Sell Used Assistive Technology Devices!
- Overhauling NCLB: Implications for Special & Gifted Education - FREE WEBINAR SERIES (even to non-CEC Members!)
- Two Historic Legends to Enter Hall of Fame for Leaders and Legends of the Blindness Field in 2010
- Dinner in the Dark on Long Island! A Benefit for the Long Island Council of the Blind (LICB)
- TVI Opening in Boston, MA
Coming TogethAER: Knot Just Coasting Alone
November 3 -5, 2010
Samoset Resort, 220 Warrenton Street, Rockport,
ME
NEAER is proud to announce this year's conference keynote speakers:
Lotfi Merabet, OD, PhD, FAAO and Robert Crowley, Maine physics
teacher and 2008 Survivor TV Show winner
The field of vision rehabilitation and education is comprised of a wide range of professionals in a variety of different fields and we want this conference to have 'something for everyone'. But, we can't do it without YOU!
Here are the links to the Call for Papers... Share your knowledge with your colleagues!
http://neaer.theiris.org
http://www.neaer.umb.edu
The deadline for submission is May 29, 2010
You can become O&M Certified in 18-credits through The Hunter College of the City University of New York O&M Advanced Certificate via Distance Learning program. Start this summer and be O&M certified by Fall 2011!
To see Hunter's video promo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlWcC6pLVtE
For more information call 212-772-4741 or email gambrose@hunter.cuny.edu
To learn more about O&M visit my blog:
http://gambrosez.wordpress.com/
To obtain more information on Hunter College Programs in Blindness
and Visual Impairment go to:
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/school-of-education/programs/graduate/special-education/blind-visually-impaired
Dr. Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Project Coordinator RT and O&M Programs
Department of Special Education
Hunter College CUNY
695 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10065
(212) 772-4741
The Internet Archive has recently launched a new service that
will provide more than a million books in DAISY format that
can be read by visually impaired readers. According to its
founder, who also founded what is now known as Amazon, the
new service more than doubles the number of books previously
available to visually impaired readers.
http://bit.ly/aBWx0X
America’s greatest secret when it comes to used technology is the Used
Low Vision Store. They also have notetakers, braille displays,
GPS (and even new Victor Streams for $319.00!). They specialize
will take almost anything on consignment and sell it for you.
Their web site is http://www.usedlowvisionstore.com/
or you can email them at
info@usedlowvisionstore.com and
let them know what you have and the price you’re asking for it.
Join CEC for a
two-part webinar series
examining the upcoming reauthorization of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), also known as
No Child Left Behind (NCLB). These webinars will explain how
revisions to ESEA/NCLB will affect students with exceptionalities
and the professionals who work on their behalf. The Obama Administration’s
“Blueprint for Reform” will directly impact special and gifted
education in many areas, including assessment accountability
systems, movement toward common standards, pay-for-performance
initiatives, methods for turning around low-performing schools,
and expansion of charter schools.
ESEA Reauthorization: What Special/Gifted Educators Need to Know
Thursday, May 20, 2010, 4 - 5 p.m. EDT
Register now!
Differentiated Compensation Systems: How ESEA Reauthorization
May Affect the Evaluation and Compensation of Special Educators
Thursday, June 3, 2010, 4 - 5 p.m. EDT
Register
now!
Presented by CEC’s Policy & Advocacy Team: Deborah Ziegler, Lindsay Jones, and Kim Hymes
Register now for the complete two-part series.
CEC’s Web seminars (webinars) bring current and expert information to busy professionals in convenient, interactive sessions. The only technical requirements are a speakerphone, a computer, and a high-speed internet connection.
Learn more about CEC’s
Reauthorization Recommendations
in preparation for attending this webinar series.
May 12, 2010 NEWS RELEASE (ATTACHED)
Two Historic Legends to Enter Hall of Fame for Leaders and Legends of the Blindness Field in 2010
Please feel free to broadly share and/or publish/post the attached news release regarding the upcoming Hall of Fame induction of:
. M. C. Migel
. Morris Frank
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
The Hall of Fame Voluntary Governing Board
Jim Deremeik (MD), Chair (jderemeik@jhmi.edu)
For more details, read flyer!
LICB is hosting its third annual Dinner in the Dark. As an attempt to educate the community to the fact that eating does not always require one sees the meal on the plate to enjoy the taste, we invite you to come and eat a meal with us without using your eyes to see that meal. The four course meal will start with an Appetizer, and will include a salad and entrée and finish with a dessert discussion on your experience.
Come and join LICB for a great meal and a great experience on May 17, 2010 at 6:30 pm at the Cork N Board Restaurant, 243 Hempstead Avenue in Malverne, NY.
Not that we are encouraging any TVIs to leave our fair (?) state (God
knows we need as many as we can recruit!), but if your husband
or wife is being transferred to the Boston area and you're
looking for your dream teaching position, this just
may be what you're looking for! Click
here
for more details.
It sounds like an ideal position!