Visually Impaired Personnel Preparation Program: A Collaborative Distance Education Model

Nora Griffin-Shirley; Pam Almon; Pat Kelley

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness Vol. 96, No. 4 (2002) pp. 233–44

In 1998, the Visually Impaired Personnel Preparation Program was established in Texas to train 100 teachers of students with visual impairments and 50 orientation and mobility specialists. By May 2000, 194 students had enrolled. Course work was...