Region 4’s Visual Impairment (VI) service provides professional development and technical assistance to districts and charter schools, ensuring a high-quality education for students with VI. We support district leadership and VI staff in meeting federal and state compliance, manage a technology loan program, offer open lab technical assistance, and facilitate Project DOVES (a low vision evaluation in partnership with the University of Houston’s Center for Sight Enhancement). This work significantly enhances the educational opportunities of students with VI by promoting their academic success and personal development.
Program Specifics:
- Technology Loan Program and Open Lab Technical Assistance: Technology is loaned to Region 4 districts/charters for student use, supplementing district-owned resources. Available to LEAs with a signed Participation Agreement. Requests via FileMaker WebDirect.
- Orientation and Mobility (O&M) Funds: Supports districts with O&M specialists.
- Quality Programs for Students with Visual Impairments (QPVI): Helps district programs meet federal and state requirements.
- Visual Impairment Endorsement Program: Prepares teachers to serve students with VI.
- Technical Assistance: Available to teachers in the Region 4 service area.
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Resources
Services
- Adapted Physical Education
- Assistive Technology
- Autism
- Behavior and Classroom Systems
- Compliance and Accountability, Special Education
- Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- Deafblind
- Early Childhood
- Regional Day School Program for the Deaf (RDSPD)
- Restorative Practices
- Significant Intellectual/ Cognitive Disabilities
- Special Education Fiscal Compliance
- Special Education Leadership and Facilitation
- Student Evaluation
- TEA Child Find and Early to Exit IEP Supports Grant Project
- Transition
- Transition, Secondary
- Visual Impairment/Orientation and Mobility