January 14, 2015 Update

Doing Everything We Can to Keep Our Students Safe

By Carol Dennis & Jeff Denton

With a new focus on a very old problem, incidents of sexual assault on college campuses across the country have grabbed headlines and raised questions about the safety of our children as we send them off to college -- many who are on their own for the first time. Western Oregon University's Abby's House (Center for Women and Families) is joining a growing number of universities to develop campus-specific smartphone apps that will give students easy access to resources to keep them safe from assault, and provide support and advocacy if a student has been a victim or witness of a sexual assault.

Read more. . .

National Center on Deaf-Blindness Welcomes Executive Director Linda McDowell

NCDB is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Linda McDowell as the new Executive Director of the National Center on Deaf-Blindness. Dr. McDowell's expertise in deaf-blindness includes serving as the Administrative Director of the Mississippi Deaf-Blind Project since 1999, authoring numerous publications, presentations at the international, national and state level, and extensive service on national and statewide committees representing deaf-blindness as well as other low incidence disabilities. She served on the NCDB Personnel Development Consortium and was lead consultant on the Helen Keller Fellows Project. Her skills and expertise are an excellent match to continue the significant work of NCDB in collaboration with the National Deaf-Blind TA Network and the broader OSEP TA community. Dr. McDowell will assume her responsibilities February 1, 2015.

View Dr. McDowell's welcome here.

National Center on Deaf-Blindness Staff Published in Visual Impairment & Deafblind Education Quarterly

Congratulations to National Center on Deaf-Blindness staff on their recent article publications and to Amy Parker for being selected as guest editor of Visual Impairment & Deafblind Education Quaterly!

Articles include:

• There's no place like home: Growing a professional home for the field of deafblindness in DVIDB (Amy Parker)
• Online parent training: The role of interveners in educational settings (Patti McGowan, Peggy Malloy)
• Using evidence-based strategies and technical assistance to improve identifiation of infants and toddlers with combined vision and hearing loss (Barbara Purvis, Mark Schalock)

View the article summaries and link to the full text here.

TRI is Hiring!

Teaching Research Institute (TRI) at Western Oregon University is currently seeking five positions:

• Lead Project Specialist (National Center on Deaf-Blindness)
• Early Childhood Project Specialist (Center on Early Learning)
• School-Age Enrichment Teacher (TRI Child Development Center)
• Bilingual Early Learning Project Specialist (Center on Early Learning)
• Child Development Center Part-Time Teacher (TRI Child Development Center)

View all the job postings here.


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