Summer Institute 2025 registration is OPEN!
Summer Institute 2025 Registration
When: July 28-31, 2025
Where: Washington State School for the Blind, Vancouver
Cost: $425
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Any person who works with blind and low vision learners and has had limited experience or education in the field of blindness. Typically, participants include teachers (classroom and special education), paraprofessionals, OT, PT, speech and language specialists, administrators, school psychologists, and other related service personnel.
PURPOSE: To provide school personnel who are, or will be, working with blind and low vision (BLV) learners with foundational knowledge, skills, and experiences that will allow the participant to understand the impact of vision loss on learning.
LODGING: Lodging is included in the registration fee. Participants stay in the residential dorms on campus that WSSB students reside in during the school year. Each cottage has a full kitchen, single occupancy bedrooms, a community bathroom, and a living room. Men and women will have separate residences.
TOPICS THAT WILL BE ADDRESSED: Travel Skills (Orientation and Mobility), Eye & Vision Disorders, Vision Loss & Learning, Adapting Environments & Materials, Braille and other Literacy Media, Physical Education, Daily Living & Self-help Skills, Assistive Technology, Your Role in the Classroom, Social Skills & Vision Loss, Low Vision Aids, Assessments, and so much more.
Contact Pam Parker, pam.parker@wssb.wa.gov, for more information.
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