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Direct linkBowman, Garry – RE:view: Rehabilitation Education for Blindness and Visual Impairment, 2007
The author discusses changes that the Texas Division for Blind Services made in its vocational rehabilitation program to increase competitive employment opportunities for vocational rehabilitation consumers who are blind and visually impaired. P. R. Warren, B. S. Cavenaugh, and M. J. Giesen (2004) reported that, nationwide, a higher proportion of…
Descriptors: Vocational Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Programs, Employment Opportunities, Visual Impairments
Peer reviewedJones, L.; Wolffe, K. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1996
The Texas Commission for the Blind's (TCB's) braille literacy initiative is an agency-based program designed to enhance the braille skills of teaching staff. In addition, TCB has established braille-production stations in 30 of its district offices and offers technical assistance to regional rehabilitation personnel. (Author)
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Inservice Teacher Education, Literacy Education
Hardwig, Jay – Teacher Magazine, 2003
Many teachers celebrate the last day of school, but the author has always found it a bittersweet time. Teaching in a self-contained classroom with not more than five students, ranging in age from 15 to 20, at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and had them most of the day, is emotionally consuming, for good or ill. While he had…
Descriptors: Self Contained Classrooms, Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Attitudes, Disabilities
Download full textTexas Education Agency, Austin. – 1993
This report describes activities and recommendations of the Texas Commission on Braille Textbook Production, which monitors the acquisition Commission on Braille Textbook Production. The primary purpose of the commission is to monitor the expeditious acquisition of publisher computerized files in the form of textbook diskettes which are needed for…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Blindness, Braille, Computer Software
Iscoe, Louise, Ed. – 1979
This annual report of the Children and Youth Services Division of the Texas Department of Community Affairs provides a guide to statewide services available to children under 6 years of age. After a brief report, 10 state agency services, direct and indirect private organization services, and four special services are described. Information about…
Descriptors: Blindness, Community Information Services, Day Care, Deafness
Phillips, Frank M. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
This report contains statistical information for schools and classes for blind students for the year 1921-1922. Reports were received for the year 1921-22 from 64 schools for the blind. Eight schools, reporting a total of 89 instructors and 629 pupils in 1917-18, did not send reports for 1921-22. Eleven schools having a total of 44 instructors and…
Descriptors: Blindness, Deafness, State Schools, Special Schools
