Trainings & Education: Empowering Families of Visually Impaired Children

Vision Screening Training Series

Learn about A Shared Vision's Vision Screening Protocol© to support EI Evaluations, IFSP meetings, as well as any time to determine if a very young child warrants follow up with a pediatric eye doctor. Click HERE.

Training Opportunities for Families and Professionals

A Shared Vision provides trainings to families and professionals who serve families of children birth to age 3, including early intervention providers, optometrists, and pediatric medical professionals.

Introduction to Blindness and Visual Impairment
Introduction to Early Intervention and Vision Services
Basic Strategies to Engage with Children with B/VI
Basic Strategies to Engage with Children with Neurological Visual Impairments (aka CVI)
Emergent Literacy for Children with B/VI
Active Learning with Children with B/VI
Communication Development and B/VI
Gross Motor Development and B/VI

For more information email [email protected].

Custom training or education programs!

If you would like a custom training or education program for you and your team, please contact [email protected].

Teaching a Child's First Teacher

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Webcast date: March 3, 2022
Webinar length: 1 hour, 57 minutes
Sponsor: Western Regional Early Intervention Conference
Webcast host: Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
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“Great information shared in a short amount of time. The handout is invaluable!”

Synopsis

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 this 2-hour webinar sponsored by the Western Regional Early Intervention Conference.

Participant Learning Objectives:

Expand your knowledge about adult learning;
Adopt frameworks, tools, and techniques to enhance your preparation and effectiveness of EI services;
Improve your ability to build caregivers’ capabilities to be their child’s first teacher; and
Be even more consciously competent.

Presenters

Paula Landry is a co-founder of A Shared Vision, Early Intervention Teacher of the Visually Impaired, and mother of a daughter who is blind.

Steven Lindauer is a co-founder of A Shared Vision, Executive Director, and human performance and leadership consultant.

Training & Education Opportunities