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Workshops

The UAB School of Education, Program for Visual Impairments and the Alabama Deafblind Project in conjunction with Alabama State Department of Education, State Improvement Grant and the EyeSight Foundation of Alabama presents the following workshops for educators, parents, students and other professionals working with individuals who are sensory impaired and those who have multiple disabilities.

2006-2007 Workshop Calendar

July 31- August 2, 2006

National Technical Assistance Consortium for Children and Young Adults Who Are Deafblind

Project Directors’ Meeting

Washington, D.C.

Contact:  C Allison

205-975-5481

callison@uab.edu

 

August 16, 2006

“Aiming High for Low Vision”

Alabama EyeSight Foundation

Birmingham Museum of Art

Birmingham, Alabama

Contact:  S Hamilton

205-488-0771

srhamilton@uabmc.edu

sanspree@uab.edu

 

September 6th, 2006

Webinar

National Technical Assistance Consortium for Children and Young Adults Who Are Deafblind

“Using the Classroom Observation Instrument for Educational Environments Serving Students with Deaf-Blindness in Order to Assist Low Incidence Classrooms”

Ella Taylor, Kat Stremel and Nancy Steele

Contact:  C Allison

205-975-5481

callison@uab.edu 

 

September 7, 2006

Alabama Deafblind Coalition Meeting

Alabama Department Rehabilation Services

Montgomery, Alabama

Contact:  V Tuck

Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind

EH Gentry/Talladega

256-761-3241

vtuck@aidb.state.al.us

 

October 12-14, 2006

American Printing House for the Blind, Inc.

 

2006 Annual Meeting of Ex Officio Trustees

Louisville, Kentucky

Contact:  D Pevsner

205-934-6721

dpevsner@uab.edu

 

October 23-25, 2006

AER Meeting

Mobile, Alabama

Contact: M Sanspree

205-934-6723

sanspree@uab.edu

 

October 29th, 2004

Webinar

National Technical Assistance Consortium for Children and Young

Adults Who Are Deafblind

OSEP Self Assessment and Site Review Process for

State and Multi-State Deaf-Blind Projects

12:00pm-2:00pm-Central

Presenters:

Charles Freeman, OSEP

Richard Zeller, WRRC

Jay Gense, Oregon Dep’t of Education

Ella Tayor, NTAC

Contact:  C Allison

205-975-5481

callison@uab.edu

October 31, 2006

Deafblind:  Assessments and Strategies

UAB Collaborative Teacher Training Program

Birmingham, Alabama

Contact:  C. Allison/M Sanspree

205-934-6723

callison@uab.edu

 

November 2-3, 2006

Blackbelt Eye Care

Diabeties and Vision Clinic

Camden, Alabama

Contact: M Sanspree

205-934-6723

sanspree@uab.edu

 

November 7-10, 2006

22 Annual Alabama Early Intervention-PreSchool Conference

Identification and Strategies for PreSchool Deafblind Students

Mobile, Alabama

Contact: C Allison

205-975-5481

callison@uab.edu

 

November 14, 2006

“An Evening at Ivy Green With Patty Duke”

Helen Keller Home

Tuscumbia, Alabama

Contact: M Sanspree

205-934-6723

sanspree@uab.edu

 

November 29, 2006

Congressman Bachus Reception

“Holiday Art”

Homewood Library

Homewood, Alabama

Contact:  D Pevsner

205-934-6721

dpevsner@uab.edu

December 3-6, 2006

Seeing Eye

UAB Orientation & Mobility Program

New York/ New Jersey

Contact:  L Moses

205-934-6723

lmoses@uab.edu

 

December 3, 2006

Early Childhood Training with Deafblind

UAB Learning Center

UAB Special Education Early Childhood Program

Contact: M Sanspree

205-934-6723

sanspree@uab.edu

 

December 7, 2006

Alabama Deafblind Coalition Meeting

Alabama Department Rehabilation Services

Montgomery, Alabama

Contact:  C Allison

205-975-5481

callison@uab.edu

Contact:  V Tuck

Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind

EH Gentry/Talladega

256-761-3241

vtuck@aidb.state.al.us

 

December 11, 2006

“Holiday Art”

Dean John Amos

School of Optometry

Worrell Building

Birmingham, Alabama

Contact:  D Pevsner

205-934-6721

dpevsner@uab.edu


February 2-3,2007

Alabama Federation

Council for Exceptional Children Conference

The Wynfrey Hotel

Birmingham, Alabama

Contact:  Dr. Betty Nelson, President

University of Alabama at Birmingham

205-975-6760

benelson@ub.edu

 

April 18-21, 2007

CEC Annual Convention & Expo.

Louisville, Kentucky

Contact:  www.CEC.Sped.Org

Phone: 888-232-7733

Fax:  703-264-9494

D Pevsner

205-934-67232

 

May  2007

Sea and Sun Camp

Orientation and Mobility Weekend

Gulf Port, Mississippi

Contact: Nancy Ann Sherman

NANNSHERM@aol.com

M Sanspree

205-934-6723

sanspree@uab.edu

 

May  4, 2007

Summer Learning Institute 2007

UAB Teacher Training Program

And

UAB Orientation & Mobility Training

Initial Class Meeting (Required)

Worrell Bldg.

924 18th Street South

Birmingham, Al

Contact: C Allison

callison@uab.edu

sanspree@ub.edu

dpevsner@uab.edu

lmoses@uab.edu

 

May 14, 2007

National Technical Assistance Consortium for Children and Young

Adults Who Are Deafblind

Topical Workshop

Washington, DC

Contact: C Allison

205-975-5481

callison@uab.edu

sanspree@uab.edu

May 31-June1, 2007 


10:00 a.m. -2:30 p.m.
Alabama School for the Blind
Talladega, Alabama

Technology Symposium/Deafblind Segment 
Anindya Bhattacharyya
Director of Technology
Helen Keller National Center
New York

 

June 4-29, 2007

Summer Learning Institute 2007

UAB Teacher Training Program

And

UAB Orientation & Mobility Training

(Graduate Vision Program)

Contact:  See above

June 2007

Alabama Association for Parents of Children With

Visual Impairments

Parent Weekend

Contact:  M Sanspree

205-934-6723

sanspree@uab.edu

 

June 2007

Alabma Deafblind Multihandicapped Association

Parent Meeting

Helen Keller Festivl

Tuscumbia, Alabama

Contact: V Tuck

256-761-3314

vtuck@aidb.state.al.us

 

July 9-13, 2007

Alabama Mega Conference

Alabama State Department of Education

Department of Special Services

Mobile, Alabama

Contacat: C Allison

205-975-5481

callison@uab.edu

dpevsner@uab.edu