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October 2006 • Volume 100 • Number 10
Comment
Notes from the Front Lines–Frances Mary D'Andrea, print edition pages 587-588
Introduction
Education Issues in Brief: A Gift from the Fellows of the National Center on Leadership in Visual Impairment–Jane N. Erin and Mark Richert, print edition pages 588-590
Highly Qualified Personnel and Implications for Teachers of Students Who Are Visually Impaired–Tilly R. Steele, Lynn Fox, and Beth Harris, print edition pages 590-592
Least-Restrictive Environment for Students with Visual Impairments–Derrick Smith and Tiffany Wild, print edition pages 592-593
Personnel Shortage and Caseload Management of Students with Visual Impairments: Children at Risk–Sharon Summers, Laurel Leigh, and Jennifer Arnold, print edition pages 593-594
Teachers of Visually Impaired Students As Providers of Related Services? "Supportive Services" versus "Specially Designed Instruction"–Lori Johnson and Holly Lawson, print edition pages 595-596
The Expanded Core Curriculum for Students Who Are Visually Impaired–Heather McDonough, Eric Sticken, and Stacy Haack, print edition pages 596-598
High-Stakes Testing and Implications for Students with Visual Impairments and Other Disabilities–Kim Zebehazy, Elizabeth Hartmann, and Julie Durando, print edition pages 598-601
The Future of Leadership in the Field of Visual Impairment–Shawn Sweet-Bernard and Donna Brostek, print edition pages 601-603
Speaker's Corner
A Call to Action: Are We Ready for Related Services? Do We Want To Be?–Kay Alicyn Ferrell and Sharon Zell Sacks, print edition pages 603-605
ARTICLES
Learning and Using Print and Braille: A Study of Dual-media Learners, Part 1–Kelly E. Lusk and Anne L. Corn, print edition pages 606-619
Abstract: This is the first of a two-part report of a study on the instruction of children who were learning or using braille and print simultaneously (dual media). It explores the demographic characteristics of teachers and students, aspects of the decision-making process for providing instruction in dual media, and attitudes of students and parents toward learning dual media.
Divergent Development of Gross Motor Skills in Children Who Are Blind or Sighted–Michael Brambring, print edition pages 620-634
Abstract: This empirical study compared the average ages at which four congenitally blind children acquired 29 gross motor skills with age norms for sighted children. The results indicated distinct developmental delays in the acquisition of motor skills and a high degree of variability in developmental delays within and across the six subdomains that were analyzed.
NEWS AND FEATURES
Editor's Page, print edition page 579
A Look Back, print edition pages 580-586, continued on page 605
From the Field, print edition pages 635-636
News, print edition pages 636-637
Calendar, print edition pages 637-640
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