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Visual Impairment: Guidelines and Support Documents
Guidelines/Guidance
- Educating Blind and Visually Impaired Students: Policy Guidance by the US DOE
- Guidelines for School Vision Screen Programs: Kindergarten through Grade 12 (PDF) (manual and supporting protocol)
- OSEP Policy Guidance on Braille Instruction, June 19, 2013 (PDF)
- Vision Screening Guidelines for Children Ages Birth through Five Years (manual and supporting protocol and handouts)
Support Documents
A Bill of Rights for All Children with Visual Impairments and Their Families
Eye Examination Form
All school-age children who are determined to be eligible with a Visual Impairment, Including Blindness will need to have an eye examination. This information does not confirm a child’s eligibility status for special education services and supports. It provides information about the learner’s visual diagnosis/diagnoses, clinical functioning, prognosis, and possible medical treatments for the eye condition(s). An example template has been created for administrative units to use and/or adapt to secure information about the eye examination.
Colorado Braille Competency Test Documents
- Colorado Braille Competency Testing Guidelines (PDF)
- Colorado Braille Competency (UEB) Test Information (PDF)
- Colorado Braille Mastery Test Accommodation Procedures (PDF)
- Colorado Braille Competency Renewal Testing Guidelines (PDF)
- CDE-Funded Braille Mentors (PDF)
Unified English Braille (UEB) Support Documents and Resources
- The ABCs of UEB by Constance Risjord
- The Rules of UEB, edited by Christine Simpson
- Duxbury UEB Chart Form
- UEB "Cheat Sheet"
- Transcriber's UEB Online Course (Canadian National Institute for the Blind)
- National Library Service (NLS) Braille Transcribing Course
- RIDBC Renwick Centre online training course in Unified English Braille (UEB), entitled "UEB Online for Sighted Learners"
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to UEB Literary
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to UEB Mathematics
- Unified English Braille for Math for Sighted Learners
Colorado Braille Competency Practice Test Documents
The Colorado Braille Competency Practice Test Documents are only for approved candidates for the Colorado Braille Competency Test. Approved candidates include licensed teachers of students with visual impairments or braillists employed in a Colorado public school district. If a copy of the Practice Test documents is needed in braille format, please email Tanni Anthony or call her at (303) 503-4647.
- Colorado Braille Practice Test - Example Multiple Choice Questions (PDF)
- Colorado Braille Practice Test - Answers to Example Multiple Choice Questions (PDF)
- Colorado Braille Practice Test - Sample 01 Seven (PDF)
- Colorado Braille Practice Test - Sample 02 Ten (PDF)
Literacy Fact Sheets for the Learner who is Blind/Visually Impaired
These information sheets were developed for individual team members who work together to draft Individual Education Program literacy goals and objectives for school-age 03 - 21 years) learners with visual impairment, including children with additional disabilities.
- Literacy Role of the TVI (PDF)
- Literacy Role of the Classroom Teacher and Reading Specialist (PDF)
- Literacy Role of the Classroom Teacher and School Psychologist (PDF)
- Literacy Role of the Speech Language Pathologist/Teacher of DHH (PDF)
- Literacy Role of the Occupational Therapist (PDF)
- Literacy Role of the Physical Therapist (PDF)
- Natural Environments Monograph (PDF)
Other Documents
For more information on Guidelines and Support Documents for Visual Impairment including Blindness, please contact:
Tanni Anthony, Blindness/Low Vision Specialist
Phone: 303-503-4647
Email Tanni Anthony
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