admin | July 25, 2012
These are some great resources that learned about through the college courses I have recently been taking. Even though not all of the sites are specifically related to visual impairments, all of them are full of useful information that I think may be helpful…or at least interesting enough to check out. All About Vision -How [...]
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admin | May 15, 2009
Troy and I, and the rest of Lyra’s IEP team met for a 2nd time to continue where we had left off during the meeting the week before. Like the first meeting, this one also lasted 3 hours, but it was a much more productive 3 hours. We were able to get the IEP completed, [...]
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Tags: albinism, braille, special education
admin | May 12, 2009
Prior to this first IEP meeting, we had put together our own list of possible goals for Lyra. They were in a very rough draft form and I wasn’t exactly sure what the best way to word them would be. My plan for writing them was to follow the Smart IEP guidelines, but because I [...]
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admin | May 6, 2009
From the very beginning of this whole process, I’ve known that our biggest challenge would be getting the school district to teach Lyra Braille. I very quickly learned just how big that challenge was going to be. On Lyra’s first day attending the preschool for her transition, I dropped her off at her classroom and [...]
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Tags: braille, functional vision, low vision, special education