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Distance Learning

Contact: Sherry Hahn, Distance Learning Coordinator
(360)696-6321 x133

The Project: WSSB’s Distance Learning Project currently has four “missions”, or areas identified for inclusion:  Mission 1 is to provide digital/online curriculum for WSSB students; Mission 2 is to provide digitally delivered curriculum for other students not at WSSB; Mission 3 is to provide training for teachers and others in the field who work with students with visual impairments; and Mission 4 is to provide a comprehensive resource for families and others to either search through frequently asked questions or send a query about raising a child with a visual impairment.

Courses Currently Available for Registration

2013 - Hadley Online Courses register online at http://www.hadley.edu/showCourseListing.asp?program=HSPS

Register for the class through Hadley School for the Blind, upon completion submit a copy of your certificate of completion to receive your clock hour forms. Contact Sherry Hahn for Washington State Clock Hours

  • Indicates classes that qualify towards BLUE recertification
  • Basic Nemeth - 30 clock hours
  • Basic Music Braille - 30 clock hours
  • Contracted Braille - 60 clock hours
  • Braille Teaching Methods for Children - 20 clock hours
  • Braille Teaching Methods for Adolescence & Adults - 20 clock hours

Diabetes Management  - 30 clock hours
Early Independence - 30 clock hours
Blindness Basics - 10 clock hours
Low Vision & School Age children - 10 clock hours
Developing Your Technology Tool Kit - 10 clock hours
Macular Degeneration - 20 clock hours
Human Eye 1 - 30 clock hours
Human Eye 2 - 50 clock hours
Glaucoma - 20 clock hours
Abacus 1 - 30 clock hours
Introduction to Braille - 60 clock hours  (this does not qualify for BLUE recertification)
Learning Through Play - 10 clock hours


Other learning opportunities

SETC  

SETC offers a variety of classes – clock hours are provided through SETC.

Registration Information:
Http://www.cwu.edu/~setc/webinars.php

Contact: e-mail Sue Wright at the SETC office to register, wrightsu@cwu.edu

Online Schools in Washington This resource is a compilation of every college program offered online in Washington that is either full or part time, however, the sites have not been vetted for accessibility

Earn ACVREP credits through Perkins webcasts
Perkins webcasts

Northeast Regional Center for Vision Education
NEW: Music Braille Class starting Fall 2010!
Instruction on Basic Eye Anatomy
Introuduction to the Perkins Brailler
Cranmer Abacus techniques

“Educating Children with Combined Hearing Loss and Visual Impairment,” a three-part recorded training posted on the WSDS website – 4.5 Washington State Clock Hours Available

Sustaining Braille Proficiency Literary ~ Nemeth

Earn continuing education credits through Hadley recorded and archived seminars


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