Podcast with Paula Landry, Co-founder and EI-TVI

Episode 12 (Coast to Coast Series): Paula Landry, "Let your child write their own story without your preconceived ideas of what they can do."

BEST Together's April 4 podcast featured A Shared Vision's co-founder Paula Landry, who shares her journey as a parent of a child with a visual impairment and her leadership with A Shared Vision and the early intervention community in Colorado.

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Adult Learning in Early Intervention Webinar
Teaching a Child's First Teacher

How do you teach a child's first teacher?! While the focus of early intervention is to improve a child's developmental outcomes, a provider's energies and efforts focus on the child’s caregivers. We are teachers and coaches for parents, not teachers and therapists for the children. Our goal is to enable caregivers to be effective first teachers – to be consciously competent about how to support the unique needs of their child.

How can providers become more effective at teaching adults who have different learning styles and preferences? A Shared Vision’s co-founders Paula Landry and Steven Lindauer share answers during a March 3 webinar sponsored by the Western Regional Early Intervention Conference.

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“Great information shared in a short amount of time. The handout is invaluable!”

Click the button below to view the 2-hour webinar and to download the webinar slides, handouts for providers' ongoing use, captioned text, and participant chat, as well as a synopsis of the webinar and learning objectives.

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2020 Annual Report

As the world seemed to stop, we held to our mission of inspiring and empowering families to nurture the development of their very young children who are blind or visually impaired so that all children may discover their brightest future. None of this could have been possible without the friendship and generous support of our donors. Thank you! Click HERE to read.

950!

More than 900 EI professionals have completed the free vision screening course conducted by A Shared Vision in collaboration with EI Colorado. View all the qualified professionals HERE. New sessions will be available soon.

I just wanted to share that I have completed my first virtual vision screening. It resulted in a referral to both medical and TVI. I just want to say how robust and helpful this process is! Conversation with the family, consultation with TVI, and way more information to share with the school district when we transition this guy out of early intervention. I am inspired by the collaboration this screener requires. Thank you!" Jenifer Dickson, Developmental Specialist, Sprout Family Services, Alaska

Vision Screening via Telehealth

How is Colorado identifying and supporting children who are blind or visually impaired during the pandemic?

A Shared Vision’s co-founders Paula Landry and Steve Lindauer, along with Tanni Anthony, shared vision screening best practices during an Outreach Coffee Hour session presented by the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the Western Regional Intervention Conference.

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A Shared Vision's Kimala Rein Teaches Infant Massage

Malachi's Vision Therapist passed along information last week about daily learning opportunities for kids with vision impairments, parents and providers through the organization 'Paths to Literacy.'

Today, we both joined a class on Infant Massage -- something I've wanted to learn for a while now. Because of Malachi's paralysis, we do leg massage and stretches daily, but now, I have better technique! Malachi also seemed to enjoy it 💛"

Let's Make Music Together!

A Shared Vision hosted its first music therapy class on March 7. The families who attended banged a big drum, shook egg maracas and strummed guitars. They sang simple rhymes with Amanda Bryant, the music therapist leading the class. They learned how music stimulates all their senses, sometimes calming them down or making them more curious. While we have cancelled future in-person classes for the time being, stay tuned for other music offerings this year. Click HERE for more pictures of the event.

PUMPKIN PATCH FRIENDS!

A Shared Vision hosted 30 family members - children, parents, grandparents and siblings - for a fun sensory learning experience in Washington Park, Denver on September 28. Parents donned sleep shades and explored the world of their children with visual impairments.  Children with visual impairments and their siblings also practiced orientation and mobility concepts in an impromptu pumpkin patch.

Special thanks to The Allstate Foundation for their financial support that allows us to host these wonderful events.

This was our first time coming to an A Shared Vision Family Fun Day and our family loved it!"

This event was awesome. I really like how we had to describe things without being able to see them!"