TETN - Distance Education Broadcasts
2007-2008 School Year

Please contact your Regional Education Service Center Consultant in the area of visual impairments to participate in these broadcasts. Sorry, but at this time the distance education broadcasts can be viewed in real time only within the state of Texas.

• SBEC CPE Certificate Request Form (viewed in recorded version after orignial broadcast date)
• ACVREP CEU Certificate Request Form (original broadcast date only)
• ACVREP CEU Certificate Request Form (viewed in recorded version after original broadcast date)
• Missed a TETN broadcast (2001-2008) - Order a Video.

September 19

LMA for Students with Severe Disabilities (#25243)

Presenter: Nancy Toelle, QPVI Trainer

Time: 1:30-3:30 PM

Contact: Your ESC Distance Education staff or ESC VI Consultant.

October 10

Implementing the Sensory Learning Kit with Students who are Visually and Multiply Impaired (#25244)

Presenter: Sara Kitchen, TSBVI Outreach VI Consultant

Time: 1:30-3:30 PM

Contact: Your ESC Distance Education staff or ESC VI Consultant.

This session involves an introduction to the use of Millie Smith's assessment and tools from the Sensory Learning Kit. The assessment with the readily available tools within the kit will help teachers understand a child's sensory preferences. This session is designed for VI teachers and classroom teachers with students who have multiple disabilities.

October 30

Transition Discussion (#25245)

Discussion Facilitators: Eva Lavigne, TSBVI Outreach VI Transition Specialist and Kate Moss, TSBVI Outreach Statewide Staff Development Coordinator

Time: 2:30-4 PM

Contact: Your ESC Distance Learning Specialist or VI Specialist

This TETN is the first in a series of two facilitated discussion on transition issues facing students with visual impairments and deafblindness. Teachers, TVI, O&M, and parents can learn and share ideas for helping to work for more successful outcomes in the adult transition from school to adult life. If you have any interest in how to improve the transition process for your students who are visually impaired or deafblind, please join in on this informal discussion group. CPE 1.5 will be offered.

November 7

Access to the General Education Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments (#25246)

Presenter: Ann Adkins, TSBVI VI Outreach Consultant

Time: 1:30-3:30 PM

Contact: Your ESC Distance Learning Specialist or VI Specialist

This TETN offers a brief overview of issues facing VI professionals in helping their students with visual impairment to access the general education cirriculum. Resources will be shared. CPE 1.5 will be offered.

December 5

Finding Your Own Replacement Part (#25247)

Time: 1:30-3:30 PM

Presenter: K C Dignan, TSBVI Outreach, Personnel Preparation Consultant

Contact: Your ESC Distance Learning Specialist or VI Specialist

The TVIs and COMs of Texas are aging out leaving a critical shortage of teachers for the future. This TETN offers a brief overview of the issues facing our profession and ideas for recruiting others to replace you in your job when you choose to leave. CPE 1.5 will be offered. Academy CPU pending approval.

December 12

Adaptive PE for Students with Visual and Multiple Impairments or Deafblindness (#25272)

Time: 10 AM-12 PM

Presenter: Dr. Elina Mullens, TSBVI Adaptive PE Teacher

Contact: Your ESC Distance Learning Specialist or VI Specialist

This TETN session will be of special interest to adaptive Parents, PE teachers, COMS, and TVIs. Dr. Mullens will provide specific information about how to adapt a wide variety of recreation and leisure activities for students with visual and multiple disabilities or deafblindness. She will also share information on the importance of considering communication and concept development through the use of the activities. CPE 1.5 will be offered. Academy CPU pending approval.

January 17

The Role of the TVI in Consultation (#25258)

Presenters: Rona Pogrund, Professor Texas Tech University

Time: 1:30-3:30 PM

Contact: Your ESC Distance Learning Specialist or VI Specialist

A TVI faces many challenges in consulting with all of the other professionals serving children with visual impairments. This session will give a brief overview of the role they have and offer resources for helping the TVI become a more adept consultant. CPE 1.5 will be offered. Academy CPU pending approval.

• Role Sign-in & Eval (53k)
• Role Handout (876k)

January 30

Usher Syndrome (#25259)

Presenter: Peggy Miller, TVI/Speech-Language Therapist, Texas School for the Deaf, Austin, TX

Time: 1:30-3:30 PM

Contact: Your ESC Distance Learning Specialist or VI Specialist

This TETN will focus on the unique needs of the deaf student with Usher Syndrome, the combination of hearing loss and Retinitis Pigmentosa leading to deafblindness. Participants will learn about how a diagnosis is made, some of the basics of the syndrome, and how to support the student and family through the diagnostic process. Educational implications will also be discussed briefly and resources will be provided. Target audience: RDSPD Administrators and Staff, District AI Staff, TVI, COMS.

• Usher Admin Sign-in and eval 55k

Usher Syndrome: An Overview (#30238)

Presenter: TSBVI Outreach Staff

Time: 3:30-5:00 PM

Contact: Your ESC Distance Learning Specialist or VI Specialist

This TETN will provide an overview of Usher Syndrome, the combination of hearing loss and Retinitis Pigmentosa leading to deafblindness. Participants will learn some of the basics of the syndrome, the challenges of supporting the student in the context of his/her family, and highlight educational implications. Simulations will be facilitated virtually and at select sights. Target audience: RDSPD Administrators and Staff, District AI Staff, TVI, COMS and parents of students diagnosed with Usher Syndrome.

• Usher Overview Sign-in and Eval 53k
• Usher Handout 755k
• Usher supplemental handout 682k
• Usher PowerPoint 4.4mb
• Family Vision Questionaire 57k
• Family Vision Questionaire Spanish 58k

February 13

Orientation and Mobility for Non-mobile Infants (#25260)

Presenter: Ruth Ann Marsh, TSBVI Outreach O&M Consultant

Time: 1:30-3:30 PM

Contact: Your ESC Distance Learning Specialist or VI Specialist

This TETN will focus on promoting the development of skills in non-mobile infants that lead to the exploration of (orientation) and movement through (mobility) a child's environment. This will include a discussion about developing body awareness, promoting the exploration of near space and developing awareness and use of the other senses. The participants will learn instructional methods and techniques to promote the development of a child's awareness of the environment, his relationship to it and ways to interact with it.

• O&M Babies Certificate
• O&M Babies Handout
• O&M Babies Sign-in-Evaluation

March 26

The Intervener Team Model: An Overview (#30917)

Presenter: Jenny Lace, Education Specialist and David Wiley, Transition Specialist, Texas Deafblind Outreach

Time: 1:30-3:30 PM

Contact: Your ESC Distance Learning Specialist or VI Specialist

An overview of the Intervener Team Model especially designed for administrators and teams working with students who are deafblind. This session will summarize the uniqueness of deafblindness and address accommodations for this population. A checklist: "Interveners in the Classroom: Guidelines for Teams Working with Students who are Deafblind" will be introduced to assist administrators, teachers, interveners, and parents in understanding roles and responsibilities of interveners in the educational setting.

April 23

Transition Discussion (#25271)

Discussion Facilitators: Eva Lavigne, TSBVI Outreach VI Transition Specialist and Kate Moss, TSBVI Outreach Statewide Staff Development Coordinator

Time: 2:30-4 PM

Contact: Your ESC Distance Learning Specialist or VI Specialist

This TETN is the second in a series of two facilitated discussion on transition issues facing students with visual impairments and deafblindness. Teachers, TVI, O&M, and parents can learn and share ideas for helping to work for more successful outcomes in the adult transition from school to adult life. If you have any interest in how to improve the transition process for your students who are visually impaired or deafblind, please join in on this informal discussion group. CPE 1.5 will be offered.

• Transition Discussion Group Handout (810k)
• Transition Sign-in Evaluation (53k)

May 14

Data Analysis of the QPVI Master List (#25262)

Presenter: Nancy Toelle, TSBVI VI Outreach Consultant

Time: 10 AM - Noon

Contact: Your ESC Distance Learning Specialist or VI Specialist

Analyzing your Master List of Students can be a helpful part of a programming accountability process. We will represent your Master List data graphically for ease of analysis and presentation to peers and administrators. CPE 1.5 will be offered. Academy CPU pending approval.

• QPVIMasterListSign-in- Evaluation (54K)
• QPVI_handout (1.2 MB)

May 21

CHARGE (#25263)

Presenter: To be Announced

Time: 1:30-3:30 PM

Contact: Your ESC Distance Learning Specialist or VI Specialist

CHARGE is a very complex syndrome that requires extensive modification to the educational program for the child. Family members are intensely involved in on-going medical management. They also may need to be intensely involved with their educational team in providing appropriate programming. This broadcast will share some basic information about the syndrome, discuss statewide and national resources for parents, and briefly discuss educational issues that must be addressed for these children.

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