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Sensory Disabilities Notice
The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) provides information on educational services and resources to support students who are deaf and hard of hearing, blind or visually impaired, or deaf-blind on its website. The following are links to information and resources excerpted from the VDOE’s webpage:
Guidance Documents
Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Blindness And Visual Impairment
State Agencies
- The is located in Staunton, Virginia and provides a Kindergarten (K)-12 educational day program, outreach services, and residential services exclusively for Virginia students who are deaf or hard of hearing, blind or visually impaired, or deaf-blind. The assist early intervention programs, local school divisions, and families in meeting the needs of children with sensory disabilities across the Commonwealth. The VSDB’s admissions policy is available on its website.
- Contact: Pat Trice, Superintendent at (540) 332-9000
- The education services program provides services to early intervention providers, school personnel, and families to help children with visual impairment, blindness and deaf-blindness to be successful in school and the community, and to prepare for the future. The offers training in the skills of blindness. The provides services to local school divisions to support the education of children who are blind or visually impaired and persons who are print disabled.
- Contact: Caren Phipps, Director of Services for Children and Youth at (804) 625-3972
- The provides standards for educational interpreting services and other services to reduce the communication barriers between persons who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families and the professionals who serve them.
- Contact: Eric Raff, Director at (800) 552-7917 V/TTY
Technical Assistance Centers
- The developed an extensive library and alternative system for providing accessible educational media under standards set by federal law to students who meet the federal requirements for print disabilities and who are eligible for accessing educational media through an Individualized Education Program (IEP). The AIM-VA, in conjunction with partnering agencies, provides required accessible educational materials to students and training for school division staff, at no cost to Local Educational Agencies.
- Contact: AIM-VA Help Desk at (866) 926-1879
- The ) at Virginia Commonwealth University provides information and training to support children with disabilities, their families, and professionals.
- Contact: CFI Office at (877) 567-1122 or TTY relay; (800) 828-1120
- The provides information, training, and technical assistance pertaining to children who are deaf and hard of hearing. Assistance is available to Virginia public school divisions, including early childhood special education and early intervention programs, through the Virginia Network of Consultants for Professionals (VNOC) Working with Children Who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
- Contact: Tracey Yurechko, Project Director at (804) 828-1342
- The provides hearing aids and FM systems for children in Virginia under age 18 whose hearing loss is confirmed by an audiologist.Devices are loaned at no cost for up to six months while families/school divisions are waiting for a permanent device to arrive.
- Contact: Lisa Powley, Coordinator at (866) 596-9367
- The provides technical assistance, training, distance education, and networking information to service providers and families of children with deaf-blindness/dual sensory disabilities.
- Contact: Ira Padhye, Project Director at (804) 828-2052
- Contact: Ira Padhye, Project Director at (804) 828-2052
Professional Training Programs
- offers Virginia’s only academic program leading to Virginia teacher licensure with an endorsement in Special Education-Deaf and Hard of Hearing PreK-12. Courses are taught through combined on-campus, distance education, and varied educational field experiences. The comprehensive program teaches all communication/instructional approaches used with students who are deaf and hard of hearing. Tuition assistance is available for qualified Virginia teachers.
- The is the only academic program in Virginia for teacher preparation leading to Virginia teacher licensure with an endorsement in Special Education-Visual Impairment PreK-12. Classes are offered through combined on-campus, video, and web conferencing through three universities: George Mason, Old Dominion, and Radford. Tuition assistance is available for qualified Virginia teachers.
- Contact: Kimberly Avila, Coordinator at (703) 993-5625
- The VDOE provides grant funding to assist Virginia educational interpreters and cued language transliterators with acquiring and maintaining the required skills and qualifications to work with children who are deaf and hard of hearing in Virginia public schools. Free regional workshops and mentoring support are available.
- Contact: Marla Pollack, Region 4 Interpreter Training Grant Coordinator at (571) 982-1504
- American Sign Language-English Interpretation programs/courses are offered at the following
Virginia community colleges and universities:- Telephone: (434) 582-2064
- Telephone: (703) 323-3192
- Telephone: (540) 831-5549
- Telephone: (804) 523-5604
- Telephone: (757) 214-6157
For questions regarding this guidance, contact Wanda Council, Education Specialist, in the Office of Special Education Instructional Services, by phone at (804) 371-4059, or email at Wanda.Council@doe.virginia.gov.
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Child Find Notice
Roanoke City Public School’s Child Find process helps to identify potential special education needs and educate the community about Child Find. The importance of Child Find in early intervention for children who may need services is critical. 新加坡六合彩开奖直播 will maintain an active and continuing child find program designed to identify, locate, and evaluate children residing in this jurisdiction who are two through 21 years of age, inclusively, who are in need of special education and related services. These shall include the following:
- Children who are highly mobile, such as migrant and homeless
- Children who attend private schools, including children who are home instructed or home-tutored
- Children who are suspected of being in need of special education and related services though they are advancing from grade to grade; and
- Children who are under age 18 who are suspected of having a disability
- Children who under age 18 and need special education and related services
- Children who are incarcerated in a regional or local jail in this jurisdiction for 10 or more days
- Child who are living in nursing homes
新加坡六合彩开奖直播 will coordinate Child Find activities for infants and toddlers (birth to age two, inclusively) with the Part C local interagency coordinating council.
新加坡六合彩开奖直播 conducts a public awareness campaign to inform the community of all persons, ages birth to 21 inclusively, rights to a free and appropriate public education and the availability of special education services.
Please refer children that may need to be considered for special education services to the Early Childhood Special Education Coordinator at (540) 853-1438. Contact may also be made to the principal of the school your child attends or the Executive Director of Special Education & Exceptional Learners at (540) 853-1437.