Announcing the Fred Scheigert Scholarship Program
This competitive scholarship awards three (3) students an individual prize of $3000 annually. Applicants must be full-time college students with low vision, chosen from among those who meet the visual acuity and academic guidelines.
2010 Texas Focus June 10-11, 2010
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Learn to Move: Orientation & Mobility brochure written for Parents - available in English or Spanish
Educating
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La
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APRIL 16-18, 2010
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Your Definition of Success Registration Website
This workshop will address how to take a more active role in Transition Planning to help move learners with visual and multiple impairments or deafblindness toward a personally satisfying adult life in the community.
Transition Planning is based on setting personal goals for a meaningful and productive life, taking steps toward realizing those goals, and making connections with allies who can help. This weekend workshop is designed for families of children who have visual impairments or deafblindness, as well as additional disabilities, which limit their independence and create a need for ongoing support, supervision, and assistance as they move into adulthood. Participants will learn effective strategies to make the most of the secondary school years by being prepared to set clear and realistic goals that reflect the students preferences and abilities. Though primarily designed for parents, professionals and paraprofessionals involved with the participating families may attend.
This weekend-long workshop will include information for parents of students (ages 10-22) with functioning levels in the range of “functionally academic” to those with “severe and profound developmental delays,” who are interested in learning more about planning for their child’s transition into their adult lives.
For further information contact:
Brian Sobeck at 512-206-9225;
or email briansobeck@tsbvi.edu.
Inside Line is a FREE 24-hour voice and fax information service and delivers a variety of information to the public through touch-tone telephone. It is the most extensive service of it’s kind in the area and is promoted daily on page B2 of the Austin American-Statesman newspaper and in appropriate sections.
Inside Line is easy to access and use. Callers dial 416-5700, or 800-862-8784 and enter the four digit category number to the information they wish to hear. Fax on Demand or “fax back” will send the caller a free faxed document, usually within a few minutes.
Inside Line is Austin’s choice because it puts answers to thousands of questions right at the callers’ fingertips. Inside Line delivers both audio and fax information and receives more than 10,000 requests for information every day. All of the information on Inside Line is current; updated daily, or as news warrants.
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For the 2009-2010 school year TSBVI will be offering Pre-Calculus (as well as Algebra I and Algebra II).
For specific information about the math courses, please contact Math Teacher Maylene Bird, birdm@tsbvi.edu
For admissions information, please contact Admissions Coordinator Cathy Olsen, olsenc@tsbvi.edu, or (512) 206-9182.
On March 7, 2009, much-loved teacher Dennis Powell passed away. His wife, Lisa has requested that all donations in his memory be made to a newly established Dennis Powell Technology Fund. “It was Dennis’s dream to be able to help students who can benefit from technology and have no other means of acquiring it,” commented Lisa. If you wish to make a memorial donation...
Please make your check out to “Dennis Powell Technology Fund”
and mail to
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired,
1100 W. 45th Street,
Austin, TX 78756.
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Dallas/Plano Marriott at Legacy Town Center, 7120 Dallas Parkway, Plano, TX
Pre-Conference for Parents & New Teachers, June 9, (Wednesday)
Conference: June 10-11, 2010 (Thursday and Friday)
Tanni Anthony, COMS/TVI, Senior Consultant, Colorado Deafblind Services, Denver, CO
Michael McLinden, Co-Author of Learning Through Touch, University of Birmingham School of Education, Birmingham, UK
Dr. David Birch, Chief Scientific & Executive Officer
Director, Rose-Silverthorne Retinal Degenerations Laboratory, Retina Foundation of the Southwest, Dallas, TX
Dawn Adams
Tanni Anthony
Diane Brauner
Randy & Vicki Foederer
Phil Schweigert
Derrick Smith
Millie Smith
Cary Supalo
Terese Pawletko
Jeanette Wicker
Pre-Conference event for Parents and non-new teachers $50
Pre-Conference event for New Teacher (proteges) free for to up to 60 from Chrissy's funds
Main Conference
Parents/Professionals $200
Paraprofessionals/University Students $150
New Teachers free for up to 60
Out-of-State Main Conference $250
Pre-Conference event for Parents and non-new teachers $75
Out of State
Pre-Conference event $75
Conference
Parents/Professionals $250
Paraprofessionals/University Students Main Conference $200
New Teachers free from Chrissy for up to 60 registrants
Out-of-State Main Conference $275
$85 Single
$110 Double, Triple, Quad
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