CONNECTING THOSE WHO SERVE THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST!!
CONNECTING THOSE WHO SERVE THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST!!
The 2018 Oregon and PNW AER Conference Agenda has been released. Click on the below link, titled a “Draft” because minor changes in scheduling may occur, but the content and times will remain unchanged. We have GREAT content this year!
Conference 2018 Sessions_Draft
MaryAnne Roberto will be providing two sessions on Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI) on Friday, March 23rd titled:
“The CVI IFSP/IEP” and “Current Trends and Research in CVI”
Bio: MaryAnne Roberto has been a Teacher of the Visually Impaired for almost 35 years, and is a graduate of Kutztown State College, in PA. MaryAnne has worked as a teacher and Early Intervention Specialist at Overbrook School for the Blind, in Philadelphia, and as an Early Intervention Specialist in Bucks County, PA. MaryAnne completed the PA CVI Mentorship under Dr. Christine Roman-Lantzy in 2010-2011, and in March 2017 became a Perkins-Roman CVI Range Endorsed Professional. MaryAnne is a faculty member of the Pediatric Cortical Visual Impairment Society, and has presented at their annual conference in 2017, and will present again in June 2018. She is a moderator for an online class for Perkins School for the Blind elearning program, and has co-presented a webinar for Perkins entitled Partners on the Journey: a TVI and Family’s CVI Experience from Birth to Age 3. MaryAnne is the owner of Envision CVI Consulting, LLC, and provides consultations, evaluations, and trainings for school districts, teams, and families. MaryAnne and her husband of 34 years live in PA, and are the parents of 8 children: four birth children and four with special needs, adopted from China.
O&M Pre-conference session will be presented on Thursday, March 22nd, by Dr. Gene Bourquin. The title of his presentation is:
“ADVANCED AND EVOLVING TOPICS IN O&M: Travelers with hearing loss, Modern Signals and Complex Intersections, and Drivers’ Yielding”
Bio: Dr. Eugene Bourquin is a native New Yorker who works at the national center on deafblindness in suburban New York (HKNC), and has served as a senior instructor, supervisor, coordinator, and director in programs providing services to individuals who are deafblind. He also worked as the O&M specialist and travel instructor for more than a decade in NY’s largest school for the Deaf. Gene has lectured internationally and nationally on topics related to drivers’ yielding, sign interpretation, and communication and mobility with deafblind people. He has earned certifications as a COMS and CLVT (retired), as well as two national certifications in sign language interpretation. Gene has published regularly in peer-reviewed journals and enjoyed teaching in personnel prep programs at Salus University, North Carolina Central University, and Mahidol University and Chiang Mai University in Thailand. He is a co-author of the Foundation chapter about travelers with hearing loss and an ordained Deacon in the Episcopal Church.