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to top This document describes the project receiving funding in Fiscal Year 2004 by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), U.S. Department of Education, under its competition 84.325B, Training Center in Early Intervention for Infants and Toddlers Who Have Visual Impairments Including Blindness. This funding is authorized by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), our nation's special education law.
NICHCY is pleased to make this listing available to you online. The listing comes from a longer publication with the incredibly long title of: Volume 2 of Discretionary Projects Supported by the Office of Special Education Programs under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Fiscal Year 2004: Personnel Preparation.
Interested in what other Personnel Preparation grants
have been funded by OSEP in 2004? Please visit:
www.nichcy.org/directories/personnelprep.asp
For an overview of OSEP's discretionary funding programs,
and to find complete listings of all its program areas, competitions, and
funded projects, please visit:
www.nichcy.org/directories/intro.asp
For a print copy of the complete Personnel Preparation directory (Volume 2), or any of the other directories
(while supplies last), please contact Todd Fisk, the Directory/Database Manager,
at:
tfisk@aed.org
| Project Director:
Hatton, Deborah University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Frank Porter Graham Child Develop Ctr Chapel Hill , NC 27599-8180 Voice: 919-966-7186 ; Fax: 919-966-7532 E-mail: Deborah_Hatton@unc.edu Web site: www.fpg.unc.edu/~edin |
Beginning Date: 1/1/2000 OSEP Contact: Glinda Hill |
Purpose: The aim of this five-year project is to develop resources that build the capacity of institutions of higher education (IHE) to train personnel at the preservice level to serve infants and toddlers who have visual impairments/blindness (VI) and their families.
Method: In partnership with faculty, families, and consumers, the project will develop nine interactive multimedia training content modules that will also be useful for faculty who train early interventionists, child development specialists, speech/language pathologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, and physicians (pediatrics and ophthalmology). Parent information, resource, and training centers and families will be able to use these resources. Modules will be accessible via the Internet, culturally and linguistically appropriate, and produced in multiple formats including Braille and disks. In collaboration with faculty, the project will develop options for using the modules and a technical assistance plan. Modules may be used for self-directed individual instruction. Faculty may choose to use video clips from the modules as part of classes. Content from the modules may be infused into existing courses, used for summer institutes or semester-long classes, or in distance learning courses.
Products: The project's Web Site and Internet component will facilitate and support module development and implementation, collaboration among partners, and dissemination and evaluation activities.
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NICHCY publishes the OSEP Directories
of Funded Projects annually, as part of our larger work in maintaining the
database of all OSEP-funded discretionary projects. Project Director: Suzanne RipleyNICHCY thanks our Project Officer, Dr. Peggy Cvach, at the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), U.S. Department of Education. We also would like to thank Doris Andres and Robin Murphy of OSEP's Research to Practice Division for all their help, support, and diligence, without which this information would not be available online and in print. |
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