Letters to Parents: What a School for the Blind’s Principal Wants Parents to Know Posted on November 6, 2023 - 10:53 am by Peggy Sinclair-Morris As I enter my fourth year as principal at the Kentucky School for the Blind, I find myself reflecting on my time as a Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments […]
Parents Gain a New Perspective on Their Son’s Albinism at NOAH Conference Posted on November 8, 2022 - 12:38 am by Amy Lynn Smith When Brian and Danielle Ford learned their son, Benjamin, had albinism, they didn’t quite know where to begin. Brian shared his experience with APH FamilyConnect, writing about the diagnosis and […]
Share Your Insights and Concerns with the Office of Special Education Programs. We’re Listening! Posted on October 12, 2022 - 12:20 am by Melisa Matthews By Rebecca Sheffield and Eric Caruso As project officers in the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), we work with grant-funded projects and centers across the […]
A Dad’s Perspective: Learning My Son Has Albinism Posted on September 6, 2022 - 10:50 am by Amy Lynn Smith Editor’s note: September is Albinism Awareness Month. In effort to increase awareness of albinism and subsequent low vision in children, APH FamilyConnect shares a dad’s story of learning his young […]
Parent of a Teen Who is Blind Shares Funding Strategies for Private Services Posted on June 30, 2022 - 10:40 am by Shannon Carollo APH CareerConnect Advisor and friend of APH FamilyConnect, Lisa Lloyd, and her husband have a 14-year-old who is blind whom they adopted from India just before her 5th birthday. If […]