Visual Impairment: Statewide Activities / Education Careers

Statewide Activities

Regional Low Vision Evaluation Clinics

Four regional clinics are sponsored, through IDEA funds, in the western, southern, metro, and northern areas of the state. These clinics are available to Colorado public school students with an Individualized Education Program (IEP) who qualify under the eligibility category of “visual impairment, including blindness.”

2025-2026 Low Vision Evalution Clincs 

Paperwork for the LVE Clinic includes:

Please reach out to Tanni Anthony for questions.

To help students and their parents prepare for a Colorado Low Vision Clinic, the CSDB Outreach Program has created a video entitled An Introduction to a Colorado Low Vision Evaluation Clinic.

Keeping in Touch (KIT) Newsletter

**Please email Berta Schlachet if an alternate version of this document is needed.

2024-2025 Issues​

• August - September 2024 (PDF)
• October 2024 (PDF)
• November - December 2024 (PDF)
• January - March 2025 (PDF)
• April - May 2025 (PDF)

Professional Learning (Blindness/Low Vision)

2025 Colorado Department of Education State Conference on Blindness/Low Vision

The focus of this two-day in person training with be Functional Low Vision Assessment and Instructional Strategies.

We look forward to seeing everyone next year for the 2025 CDE Blindness/Low Vision Conference

Education Careers Working with Students

Braille Textbook Transcriber

• National Federation of the Blind (NFB): Braille Transcriber Description

Licensed and Endorsed Special Education Specialist: Visually Impaired/Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments (TVI)

• Definition and Role of a TVI (PDF)

Licensed and Endorsed School Orientation and Mobility Specialist (COMS)

• Related Service: Orientation and Mobility

Licensure information in Colorado

• ​For information about the endorsement requirements for the Special Education Specialist: Visually Impaired Ages Birth-21 (9.02), go to the Endorsement Requirements page
• For information about the endorsement requirements for the School Orientation and Mobility Specialist Ages 0-21 (11.03), go to the Endorsement Requirements page

University

• University of Northern Colorado Teacher Training Program in Orientation and Mobility
• UNC Masters Program: Special Education - Visual Impairment

For more information on state-wide activities, Education Careers, or Professional Development for Visual Impairment including Blindness, please contact:

Tanni Anthony, Blindness/Low Vision Specialist
Phone:  303-503-4647
Email Tanni Anthony