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Meeting the Needs of All Students

Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (TSBVI) is a special public school established and funded by the state of Texas. TSBVI provides specialized and intense services that focus on the unique learning needs of students with visual impairments, including those with additional disabilities. One of the ways we meet the needs of all students with visual impairments in Texas is through our Special Programs.

Special Programs

Special Programs provide short-term services to  visually impaired students who attend their local districts during  the school year. Special Programs provide two types of service:

• Short-Term Programs: range from three to five days in length and offer  intensive, individual, narrowly focused training to academic students  in any area specifically related to vision loss, such as adaptive  technology, Braille, and tactile math tools. Close collaboration  with independent school districts occurs before and after participation  in these programs. Contact Lauren Newton at (512) 206-9119.
   
• Summer Programs: provide a wide range of offerings,  from elementary to high school, academic to severely multiply-impaired,  in a broad array of content areas such as vocational, functional  application of academic skills, independent living skills, social-emotional  development, and adapted athletics.

 If you would like more information about Special Programs, please contact:

• Dr. Lauren Newton, Principal of Special Programs
  (512) 206-9119 
  newtonl@tsbvi.edu