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A 9-year-old girl who is visually impaired, in second grade at her local elementary school, was adopted from China by her American parents a year and a half earlier. The student was homeschooled by her mother during the previous school year in order to ease the child's transition into her new family and community. She communicates with her classmates, teachers, and family in English but is showing some delays in concept development. While in the planning stages of the adoption, the child's parents joined an electronic mail list for parents of children who are blind or visually impaired in order to inquire about the child's eye condition, typical educational needs of students who are visually impaired, and ophthalmologists with good reputations in her geographic area. The parents of this child also used the electronic e-mail list to connect with other families across the country that homeschool their children with visual impairments and to begin collecting curricular resources.

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