Question the Authorities with Dr. Rachel Schles

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Description

Join AER on February 17, 2022 for the next session in our new series: “Question the Authorities!” This interview will be with Dr. Rachel Schles, the Coordinator of the Program in Visual Disabilities and Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Special Education at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Dr. Schles has recently authored two articles: Population Data for Students with Visual Impairments in the United States in the Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness and A Mixed-Methods Analysis of State-Level Population Data for Students with Visual Impairment and Blindness in Exceptional Children. This moderated question and answer session will dig deeper into new population data for students with visual impairments, issues around Child Count and reporting of student population data, and implications for practitioners in the field. Questions from the audience, as well as prepared questions, will be included in this session.

Contributors

Dr. Rachel Schles

Dr. Rachel Schles is the Coordinator of the Program in Visual Disabilities and Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Special Education at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Dr. Schles’s professional focus is on preparation of future teachers of students with visual impairments, understanding the true prevalence of students with VI in the United States, and facilitating timely identification of students with visual impairments and deafblindness of special education services. She was the recipient of CEC’s Division on Visual Impairments and Deafblindness Teacher of the Year (2016) Award and her research into population data on students with VI earned her their Outstanding Dissertation (2021) Award.