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    Adult Summer Program
    The Future is Yours
    Augest 4-9 2013
    Licensure Program
    for Training
    New Teachers of the Blind and Visually Impaired
    Parent Connections
    Beginning in September 2012
    Summer EmployAbility Program
    July 7 - August 16 2013
    Summer School 2013
    Mission Impossible
    July 21 - August 1 2013
    WCBVI Family Conference 2013
    May 31 - June 2 2013
    Wisconsin Braille Competency Exam
    Saturday April 27 2013
    8:00 AM - 3:45 PM

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    Free Low Vision Clinics Listserv - Wisconsin Families of VI Children (WFOVIC) InfantSEE Program - No Cost Assessments National Agenda - Wisconsin's Plan

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    Current Edition of the Eye Spy ARRA Fraud Reporting

    Resources for Free White Canes

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    Welcome to WCBVI

    Created under 1999 Wisconsin Act 9, the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired (WCBVI) is the reorganized, innovative part of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction providing statewide services to blind and visually impaired students. As a part of the Department of Public Instruction's Division for Learning Support: Equity and Advocacy, the WCBVI is the lead resource for providing quality services to blind and visually impaired school-age children.

    The WCBVI campus is located adjacent to the beautiful Rock River near downtown Janesville, Wisconsin. The WCBVI operates the Wisconsin School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (WSBVI), a residential school for blind and visually impaired K-12 students. The school, in addition to providing a general education curriculum, offers intensive instruction in skills which minimize the effects of blindness (e.g. Braille instruction, travel with white cane, use of technology, appropriate social skills which would otherwise be learned incidentally through sight, etc.). The WCBVI, through its Janesville campus/school and state wide outreach team, provide a wide array of statewide services, assessments, summer/weekend programs, resources, and professional opportunities.

    The WCBVI is guided in its mission by the The Blind and Visual Impairment Education Advisory Council which is comprised of professionals, parents, advocates, and leaders in general and special education of the blind and visually impaired.

    Tours of our facility can be arranged with Mandy Jordan at 608-758-6141 or E-Mail amanda.jordan@wcbvi.k12.wi.us. Please keep in mind that placement must be through the IEP process at your local school district.


    If your agency, organization or civic group would like to host a presentation on the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, please contact Pete Dally at pete.dally@wcbvi.k12.wi.us


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