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Vitae
Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities
Rhode Island College
600 Mt. Pleasant Avenue
Providence, RI 02908-1991 401-710-9981
401-456-9814
Education
Dates Degree Institution Course of Study
1998 26 credits University of Arizona Teaching the Blind and Visually
towards Tucson, Arizona Impaired
certification
December MA Eastern Michigan University Deaf Education
of 1973 Ypsilanti, Michigan
1972 BA Hood College Early Childhood Education
Frederick, MS
Additional Training
Dates Credits Institution/Sponsor Course of Study
July 2000 3 Boston College Deafblindness
Perkins School for the Blind
Newton, Massachusetts
2000-2001 0 Arizona Deafblind Project Intervenor training
Presented by: Linda Alsop (attended as a future trainer)
From SKI HI Institute
Certifications Held
Elementary and Deaf Education Teaching the Blind and Visually Impaired
Michigan Texas Arizona
Colorado California Rhode Island
New York Arizona
Rhode Island
Professional Experience:
Jan. 2005 to present Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities
Rhode Island College
600 Mt. Pleasant Avenue
Providence, RI 02908
The Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities is Rhode Island's University Center on Excellence in Developmental Disabilities.
Responsibilities:
* Provide workshops regarding the understanding of visual impairment and strategies used to
teach young children with visual impairments
* Provide on site consultative and technical assistance services for children with visual
impairments and/or deafblindness
* Provide functional visual assessments for children with visual impairments
* Provide communication assessments for children with deafblindness or multiple disabilities
* Provide transition assistance from early intervention to school for children with visual
impairments and deafblindness
Dec. 2001 to Mississippi Deaf-Blind Project
Dec. 2004 University of Southern Mississippi
Box 5115
Hattiesburg, MS 39401
The Mississippi Deaf-Blind Project is a federally funded project providing technical assistance to all students with deafblindness from birth to 21 years of age in the state of Mississippi. Technical assistance refers to the development of capacity within the state to teach students with deafblindness.
Title: Project Coordinator
Responsibilities
* Provide workshops regarding the understanding of deaf-blindness and
strategies used to teach children with deafblindness.
These workshops are given to parents, teachers and all service providers working with
children with deafblindness
* Provide on site consultative and technical assistance services for all children with
deafblindness in the state of Mississippi
* Technical assistance involves:
- Assessing the needs of students with deafblindness (visual, auditory, communication)
- Developing and directing a course of action to teach each individual student
- Encouraging appropriate strategies and techniques specific to each student
- Supervising the development of individual student portfolios
- Assisting in IEP development
- Attending IEP meetings when requested
* Supervise Project Support Coordinator
Separate grant activity
* Provide technical assistance for children with visual impairments in the public schools and in
early intervention programs
* Outreach to identify, assess and recommend strategies for children with Cortical Visual
Impairment
* Provide assistance in the personnel preparation grant: "Masters in Severe Disabilities with an
Emphasis on Dual Sensory Impairment"
This grant provides an on-line degree combining the expertise of Texas Tech University and
The University of Southern Mississippi
Post Graduate Teaching:
Rhode Island College
2007, 2008
Instructor, co-teaching
SPE 526 - Assessment, Curriculum, and Methods for Children with Multiple Disabilities
University of Southern Mississippi
2004
Instructor:
SPE 654 - Assessment and Intervention for Children with Severe Disabilities
Lectures for the University of Southern Mississippi:
2005 SPE 400 - The Psychology and Education of the Exceptional Individual
1. "Visual Impairment: "Identification and Developmental Implications"
2. "Hearing Impairment: Identification and Developmental Implications"
2003 SHS 425 - Psycho-Social Factors Associated with Hearing Impairment
2004 Lecture: "Deafblindness: Identification and Developmental Implications"
2005
Lectures in Arizona
2000 "Techniques used to facilitate communication for students with deafblindness"
Presented to University of Arizona masters students studying visual impairment
1999 "The Effects of Deafness on Learning and Communication:
Presented to University of Arizona masters students studying visual impairment
Presentations at Conferences:
In Mississippi
2005 "Identification of Children with Deafblindness", Pediatric Conference, March 2005
(podium, invited)
2004 "Identification of Cortical Visual Impairment through Visual Characteristics",
Early Intervention Conference, April 2004 (podium, invited)
2002 "Developmental Implications of Deafblindness", AAMR Conference, October, 2002
(podium, invited)
"Identification of Children with Visual Impairments", Special Education Conference
October, 2002 (podium, invited)
2002 "Identification of Children with Visual and Hearing Impairments", Person Centered
Planning Conference, February, 2002 (podium, invited)
In Arizona
2001 "Calendar Systems for Students who have Deafblindness or Multiple Disabilities"
Arizona AER Conference (podium, invited)
Workshops Conducted:
In Rhode Island
2007 "Cortical Visual Impairment" for Early Intervention
"Assessment for Cortical Visual Impairment" for Early Intervention
2008 "Early Brain Development and Implications on Young Children with Visual
Impairments" for Early Intervention
"Cortical Visual Impairment" for School District
"Understanding Visual Impairments in Young Children" for Early Intervention
and School District Pre-school Programs
In Mississippi
2005 "Low Vision in Young Children" for Early Intervention
5 days one month apart from February through June
"Identification of Low Vision in Young Children"
1 day for Mid South Rehabilitation
2003-2004
"Teaching Students with Deafblindness"
4 days one month apart from October, 2003 to February, 2004
"Teaching Students who are Blind with Multiple Disabilities"
3 days one month apart from October, 2003 to January 2004
"Teaching Students who have Low Vision and Multiple Disabilities"
2 days one month apart from October, 2003 to December, 2003
"Teaching Academic Students who have Low Vision"
October, 2003
"Identification and Implications of Visual Impairment in Young Children"
Laurel Early Intervention, Mississippi Department of Mental Health, Spring, 2004
2002 - 2003
"Teaching Young Children with Low Vision"
Early Intervention at Project Prints: Department of Mental Health, May and August, 2003
"Teaching Students with Deafblindness"
4 days one month apart from October, 2002 to February, 2003
"Teaching Students who are Blind with Multiple Disabilities"
3 days one month apart from October, 2002 to January 2003
"Teaching Academic Students who are Blind"
3 days one month apart from October, 2002 to January 2003
"Teaching Students with Low Vision and Multiple Disabilities"
2 days one month apart from October and November 2002
"Teaching Academic Students with Low Vision"
October, 2002
"Teaching Students with Hearing Impairments and Multiple Disabilities"
October and November, 2002
"Teaching Academic Students with Hearing Impairments"
October and November, 2002
"Overview of Deafblindness"
4 one day workshops for the Mississippi Department of Mental Health
"Teaching Students with Deafblindness"
1 day workshop, Madison School District, August, 2002
Presentations:
2003 "Identification of Cortical Visual Impairment through Visual Characteristics"
University Medical Center, June, 2003
Teaching Experience:
l998-2001 The Foundation for Blind Children
1235 East Harmont Drive
Phoenix, Arizona 85020
The Foundation for Blind Children is a unique non-profit organization. The Foundation teaches individuals who are blind or visually impaired from infancy to age 22 as well as offering technical training for adults as well as job placement counselors for adults. It has a pre-school on the premises and several itinerant teachers for students placed within the public school setting in the Phoenix area. It provides a Saturday recreation program as well as a summer school program. Parent education and support is available as well as counseling services for families and children. Staff development is stressed and many guest speakers are invited to the Foundation throughout the year. These often include ophthalmologists as well as professors and experts in the field of vision.
Title: Itinerant Teacher of the Blind and Visually Impaired
Responsibilities:
* Itinerant teacher for 21 students who are blind, visually impaired and deafblind between
ages of 3-22
* Perform functional vision and learning media assessments on each student.
* Design and implement an educational plan for each student.
* Instruct classroom teachers and assistants in modifications and techniques required by
students
* Provide technical assistance for each student.
* Teach compensatory skills such as braille and abacus as needed
* Teach the use of low vision devices (magnifiers, monocular, CCTV) to students
* Consult with other teachers of the blind and visually impaired who had students with
multiple disabilities, deafblindness or challenging behavior
* Supervised students taking classes in visual impairment from the University of Arizona
l996-l998 Fountain Hills Unified School District
Fountain Hills, AZ
Title: Itinerant teacher for students with hearing impairments
Responsibilites:
* Taught students who were mainstreamed in regular classrooms
* Taught students as well as consulted with their teachers.
Also took courses at the University of Arizona for certification to teach the Blind and Visually Impaired
l996-l997 Fountain Hills (continued)
Title: Special Education Teacher
Responsibilities:
* Taught in a self-contained classroom of students with multiple disabilities (autism, visual
impairment, cerebral palsy)
* Wrote and implemented IEP's for these students
l993-l996 Lexington School for the Deaf
30th Ave and 75th Street
Jackson Heights, New York ll370
Lexington is a world-renown school for the deaf. Professionals from the United States and abroad visit Lexington to observe their newest, innovative teaching philosophies and methods. Constant staff development occurs in the form of lengthy training of new methodology and teaching techniques. Teacher excellence is expected and demanded. Having the experience of teaching at Lexington was a privilege, and I have continued to use the excellent teaching strategies and techniques that I learned there.
Title: Teacher of the Hearing Impaired
Responsibilities:
* Classroom teacher of students with hearing impairment (2 years in 1st grade, 1 year in 2nd)
* Taught all academic subjects using total communication
* Taught speech to these students
* Supervised and guided full-time para-professional
* Wrote and implemented IEP's for all academic subjects
l986-l993
Involvement in various volunteer activities in Croton, NY while raising my son.
Volunteer activities included:
* PTA secretary
* Committee to hire school principal
* School pictures coordinator
* Class mother
* Cub scout award chairman
l985-l986 The Phoenix Education Center
750 Dartmouth Avenue
San Carlos, California 94070
This school was a private, innovative school for the deaf. An oral-aural method was used to teach these children. Several of my students were learning disabled and mentally challenged as well as deaf.
Title: Teacher of the Hearing Impaired
Responsibilities:
* Teaching classroom of students aged 7-13 with hearing impairments
l979-l980 The John Tracy Clinic
806 W. Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90007
The John Tracy Clinic is a world-renown pre-school for the deaf committed to the oral communication method of teaching children with hearing impairments. Speech, lipreading, auditory training and communication are stressed. Parent participation and education are key elements of this program as is intense staff development. It was a privilege to teach at the John Tracy Clinic.
Title: Teacher of the Hearing Impaired
Responsibilities:
* Classroom teacher to twelve 2 year old children with deafness
* Planned and implemented all classroom activities
* Supervised, guided and instructed classroom assistant
* Supervised, guided and instructed parents
l978 Inez Carrol Elementary School
222 Raymac
Houstin, Texas
This school is a public school housing several classrooms of children with hearing impairment. These classes were self-contained. As children were able, they became integrated in regular classrooms. The total communication method of teaching was used at this school.
Title: Teacher of the Hearing Impaired
Responsibilities:
* Classroom teacher for children with hearing impairment on the 3rd grade level
* Taught all academic subjects
* Wrote and implemented IEP's for all academic subjects
l977-l978 Hillside Elementary School
4500 Clifton
El Paso, Texas
Hillside is a public school housing several self-contained classrooms for children who were deaf or hard of hearing. My students had multiple disabilities as well as hearing impairment. Total communicaton was the method used in this school.
Title: Teacher of the Hearing Impaired
Responsibilities:
* Classroom teacher for children with hearing impairment and multiple disabilities
* Taught all academic subjects
* Supervised and guided aide
* Wrote and implemented IEP's for all academic subjects
l975-l977 Carson Elementary School
5420 E. First Street
Denver, Colorado 80220
Carson School is a public school with several self-contained classrooms for children who are deaf or hard of hearing. The oral method of communication was taught which stressed lipreading, auditory training, speech and communication. This school stressed staff development and exacting teacher training. Many teaching techniques learned in this position have been proven invaluable.
Title: Teacher of the hearing impaired
Responsibilities:
* Classroom teacher for students with hearing impairment on the 2nd and 3rd grade level
* Taught all academic subjects
* Wrote and implemented IEP's for all academic subjects
Membership in Professional Organizations:
AER (National organization of teachers of the blind and visually impaired)
AITVI (Arizona Itinerant Teachers of the Visually Impaired)
Served as Vice President of AITVI in 2001
MAER (Mississippi organization of teachers of the blind and visually impaired)
