Intervener Services for Students who are Deafblind: Family Stories and Resources to Help You

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Come join us as we discuss the hot topic of interveners! This webinar will provide you with a basic understanding of the intervener's role, including training, certification/credentialing, nationwide requirements, ongoing activities, and where to find information and resources. Joining us to share the impact and importance of intervener services for individuals who are deafblind and their families are two families from the US and the interveners who have worked with their children. You won't want to miss this one!

Contributors

Kristi Probst, Ed.D.

Kristi Probst is an Initiative Lead (Interveners and Qualified Personnel) for the National Center on Deaf-Blindness. Her undergraduate and graduate degrees focused on educating students with sensory disabilities (deaf/hard of hearing and visual impairment), and her doctoral studies concentrated on the area of special education, specifically, educating students who are deafblind. Her work with NCDB centers on education, training, and systems change relating to interveners and educators. Her 20+ years of clinical, classroom, and early intervention experience working with individuals with disabilities have influenced her work. Kristi has been an active member of AER since 1997 and currently serves on the Professional Personnel Recruitment Committee and as the Secretary/Treasurer of Division 3, Multiple Disabilities and Deafblindness.
Kristi Jones

Kristi Jones is the Family Specialist for the Tennessee Deaf-Blind Project. Her work within the Project centers on building relationships with families of children with deafblindness, ages birth through 21. The primary goal is to build a community of support and resources that empower families to envision and create a future that works best for them. Kristi also serves the CHARGE Syndrome Foundation as the State Liaison for Tennessee. The Foundation serves individuals with CHARGE Syndrome of all ages and their families, striving to create a better life for individuals with CHARGE Syndrome through education, support, and connection. Recently that role was expanded to a Regional Facilitator of the Southeastern states to help recruit and guide other state liaisons as they serve the families within their states. Kristi began her walk into the world of deafblindness after her 23-year-old daughter Gabby was born with CHARGE Syndrome. She believes advocating for and educating others about Gabby, CHARGE Syndrome, and Deafblindness has been the most rewarding of lifelong journeys.
Elizabeth McKee

Elizabeth McKee lives in Brentwood, TN, a suburb of Nashville. She has a degree in Sign Language Interpreting. She began working as an interpreter for a 7th-grade student who is Deafblind in 2012. Eleven years later, they are still a pair. She became a certified intervener in 2020. She enjoys music and watching her grandsons play sports in her spare time.
Jodi Anderson

Jodi Anderson is the Family Engagement Coordinator for the Wisconsin Deafblind Technical Assistance Project (WDBTAP). Jodi is the proud parent of two children, one on the Autism spectrum and one who is deafblind with special needs and medical complexities. Through her advocacy journey for her own children, Jodi helps families navigate the world of special education including advocating for related services and growing family connections with other families and with the deafblind community. Through her personal journey and over 30 years experience working in healthcare, she is putting focus on becoming a helping hand for other Wisconsin families with children who have combined vision and hearing losses and help them find their own voice.

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Contributors

Kristi Probst, Ed.D.

Kristi Jones

Elizabeth McKee

Jodi Anderson