Betsy McGinnity, a senior advisor for the National Center for Deaf-Blindness at TRI was recently honored by the Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired (AER) with the 2014 Virginia Sowell Award for advancement of knowledge and understanding of deafblindness and multiple disabilities. The annual award was presented to McGinnity last month by AER's Multiple Disabilities and Deafblind Division for her long career of exceptional leadership in education. More.