Access to Learning for Students with VI and Extensive Support Needs: Tools for Your Toolbox

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Purpose:
This presentation will focus on evidence-based practices and strategies that provide access to learning for students who have extensive support needs.

Learning Outcomes:
●Participants will increase their knowledge of the barriers to access for students with visual impairments and additional disabilities.
●Participants will learn how to work with educational teams to gather information about their students with ESN to enhance access, learning, and engagement
●Participants will learn ways to plan standards-based balanced instruction for learners with visual impairments and ESN.

Contributors

Hilary Hodes

Hilary Hodes is the Project Coordinator for the Virginia Deafblind Project. She has over 15 years of experience working in specialized and inclusive settings, including a pilot program in Brooklyn, NY designed to meet the unique needs of learners with combined vision and hearing loss. She is passionate about figuring out how children who communicate in unconventional ways express themselves and share their ideas and personalities with the world.

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Contributors

Hilary Hodes