Perkins School for the Blind is launching a virtual academy to share its expertise in teaching students with rare disabilities with educators worldwide. The academy will initially focus on visual impairments but will expand to include strategies for working with students with all types of disabilities. Perkins CEO Dave Power envisions it as a 'Khan Academy' for special education, providing accessible and practical lessons for teachers facing diverse and complex caseloads.
Perkins School for the Blind is launching a virtual academy to share, with educators located anywhere, techniques for teaching students with rare disabilities.will kick off this January with an online curriculum focused on the assessment, intervention and instruction of students who are blind or low vision. But leaders at Perkins said those courses are just a starting point.
The school's efforts to share its strategies beyond the walls of Perkins' Watertown campus reflects a hope to reach students with disabilities increasingly placed in general education classrooms.. Only one in five of these students attended public school in 1970, according to data from the U.S. Government Accountability Office., students are entitled to receive a free and appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment.
Students often suffer when they confront a learning environment that wasn't designed for them, said Natalie Shaheen, assistant professor of blind education at Illinois State University. “If you're a blind student, you're not seeing anybody else's hands,” Shaheen said. “Were you the first one? Were you the last one? Did the teacher not call on you because there were so many other people to choose from?”
CVI will be the focus of the first Perkins Academy certificate program, which begins on Jan. 15. Anyone can enroll, including parents who want more information about how to support their child. The program consists of four courses, costing $500 each.
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