Avila Receives Funding For Virginia Consortium For Teacher Preparation In Vision Impairment
Kimberly Avila, Visual Impairment Consortium and Assistant Professor, Professor-in-Charge, Special Education: Visual Impairments, Helen A. Kellar Institute for Human disAbilities, received funding for: "Virginia Consortium for Teacher Preparation in Vision Impairment."
The Virginia Consortium for Teacher Preparation in Vision Impairment (VI Consortium) is composed of three universities in Virginia (Mason, Old Dominion University, and Radford University).
The mission of the VI Consortium is to develop and implement a statewide program to meet the initial and continuing education needs for teachers of students who are blind and visually impaired in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Utilizing distance education and a shared program of study and coursework, participating universities will provide coursework toward licensure with an endorsement in blindness and visual impairment, and continuing education courses to enable teachers to meet the state required competencies for highly qualified teachers of students who are blind and visually impaired.
Avila received $315,777 from the Virginia Department of Education on a subaward from the U.S. Department of Education. Funding began in October 2021 and will end in late September 2023.
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