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Texas Focus 2008 – Session Grid and Materials/Handouts

Session Grid and Hotel Room Map MS Word Document (58k)

Day 1 – June 16, 2008 – Parent Pre-Conference
Time Location Activity

9:00 AM – 7:00 PM

Hotel Lobby

Sign-in and Packet Pickup

9:30-10:00

Prefunction Area

Coffee

10:00 – 11:30 AM

Phoenix North

Families Connecting with Families

Susan LaVenture, Executive Director
National Association of Parents of Children with Visual Impairments

Round-Table Sharing:  Family to Family

11:30 AM -12:30 PM

Austin

Luncheon with Texas Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments

12:30-1:15 PM

Phoenix North TAPVI Meeting

12:30-1:15 PM

Austin

¿Habla ARD y IDEA? (En Español) Vocabulario de Educacion Especial
(En Español)
Special Event for Spanish-Speaking Families
with Olga Uriegas, TVI Region 11 ESC

Day 1 – June 16, 2008 - Afternoon Breakouts Sessions
Time and Locations

Time

DeWitt Phoenix North

1:30-3:00 PM

Infusing the Strategies of Miles, Nielsen, and van Dijk for Students with Visual and Multiple Impairments or Deafblindness
Sara Kitchen

Inclusion Strategies to Engage Students with Visual Impairments in Activities with their Sighted Peers
Randy & Vicki Foederer

3:00-3:30 PM

Break

3:30-5:00 PM

Saying What You See:  Describing the World to Your Children
Laurel Hudson

Community Based / Recreational and Physical Education Opportunities for Students with Multiple Impairments, Including Visual Impairments
Randy and Vicki Foederer

Day 2 – June 17, 2008  
Professional/Parent Conference General & Breakout Sessions
Time Location Activity

7:30 AM – 4:30 PM

Hotel Lobby Sign-in and Packet Pick-up

8:00-8:30 AM

Pre-Function Area Continental Breakfast

8:30-9:00 AM

Phoenix South-Central

Welcome & Housekeeping

9:00-10:00 AM

Phoenix South-Central

OceanSight Collaboration Between Perkins School for the Blind  and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 
Dr. Amy Bower & Kate Fraser

10 AM – 7 PM

Pre-Function Area

Exhibits

10:00-10:30 AM

Pre-Function Area

Break

10:30-11:30 AM

Phoenix South-Central

Is There Life after Graduation and How Can We Help Our Kids Prepare for This?
Sarah & Alyssa Gerber with April Fenton

11:30 AM -1:00 PM

Lunch on your own
Day 2 – June 17, 2008 Afternoon Breakout Sessions
Time and Locations

Time

Austin

Phoenix North

Phoenix Central

Phoenix South

1:00-2:30 PM

Switch Accessible Computer Activities for Students with Visual Impairments and Additional Disabilities Including Deafblindness
Holly Cooper

O&M Baby Style: Ages of Infancy
Tanni Anthony

Saying What You See:  Access to the Curriculum through Verbal Description
Laurel Hudson

Braille Production for Math
Annee Hartzell

2:30-3:00 PM

Break in Pre-Function Area

3:00-4:30 PM

"What is an AT Evaluation Anyway?"  Merging an Assistive Technology Protocol with Teaching Resources for the Visually Impaired
Debra Leff & Pat van Geem

Listening, Learning, and Early Literacy of the Young child who is Blind/Visually
Tanni Anthony

Connecting Orientation and Mobility to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)
Olga Uriegas and Ruth Ann Marsh

Developing a Technology Toolkit:  Innovative Strategies for Success in the Classroom!
Larry Lewis

5:00-6:30 PM

Phoenix Central & Pre-Function Area

Avoid-the-Traffic Happy Hour with Dr. Jane Erin

The ABC Braille Study: Answers from Young Braille Readers

Day 3 – June 18, 2007  
Time and Locations

Time

Austin

Phoenix North

Phoenix Central

Phoenix South

8:00-9:00 AM Continental Breakfast in Pre-Function AREA
8 AM – 2:30 PM Exhibits in Pre-Function AREA

9:00-11:30 AM

 

Incorporating Access Technologies into the Science Classroom 
Cary Supalo

Literacy Opportunities for All
Barbara Miles

Essential Supports for Beginning Readers in the 21st Century: Examining the Teacher’s Role
Donna McNear

Making Math Accessible:  Tools and Techniques for Students with Visual Impairments 
Margaret Robinson and Susan Osterhaus

10:00-10:30 AM

Break in Pre-function Area

11:30 AM-1:00 PM

Lunch on your own

11:45 AM-12:45 PM

ECI Cracker-barrel

Mentor Cracker-barrel

No Session

No session

1:00-3:30 PM

2:00-2:30 Break

APH Materials for O&M Instruction
Maria Delgado

Finding Your Way:  A Guide to Learning and Teaching the BrailleNote GPS
Maya Greenberg

Collaborating with Reading Teachers to Increase Student Results
Donna McNear

Making Science Accessible:  Tools and Techniques for Students with Visual Impairments 
Margaret Robinson

2:00-2:30 PM

Break in Pre-function Area


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