The University of Arizona is introducing a new program designed to increase the number of teachers serving K-12 students with visual impairments. A $1.3 million grant will help make it all happen.
Project COMPASS—an acronym for 'Culturally Responsive Orientation and Mobility Professionals and Specialists in Sensory and Severe Education—is built around a holistic approach that brings together graduate students in three different specialties: Visual impairment, severe and multiple disabilities, and orientation and mobility.
"We're really excited about it. I'm really glad that I have my colleagues, Dr. Stephanie McFarland and Dr. Sunggye Hong, who have been faculty here for a very long time leading these programs. And now this kind of grant bringing the three of us together."shared Garrison Tsinajinie. "...and me bringing in the culturally responsive component. Thinking about and supporting communities of color," added Tsinajinie.
"What we're trying to do is give students from these different programs more opportunities to work together and to complete assignments to increase their awareness of other professionals," said Sunggye Hong.
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