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TEAM ANA,

Team, Thanks to everyone. Beth, thanks for editing the final product. Annette

Hi, I went through and deleted the names that were added as we posted info. Annette, I wrote one of the O&M objectives so deleted that also. Beth offered to edit the final product and I think that would work. I understand that we just leave the final product on the wiki. I've read through everything, and I think we've written a good report. Grace

Hi all, Annette, thanks for your feedback. With 9 of us all working on this, I know it is hard to know when and where to contribute, especially when some sections are more involved than others. I totally understand. I think that even if everyone has been following along and posting some feedback either in the discussion boards or within the documents, then we are all contributing. I just want to make sure that everyone is satisfied with the final product. As for your question about turning it in, I think we just leave it here on the wiki and whatever is here on the due date is the final product. Is that right?

Annette, I will leave the decision on whether or not to drop the PE goal and O&M goal up to you and the rest of the team. Would someone like to volunteer to be the final "editor"? Take off any names that are left to contributions and double check spelling and grammar.? Thank you! Marla

Marla, This is what collaboration is all about. I'm the one who added the O & M and the PE goals that you are discussing and you are right about waiting for an O & M assessment. If our group wishes, we can take them off because we do already have enough goals. I think we just all want to feel that we are helping out and doing our share so adding is the natural thing to do. Here's a question for any of you who get what we are doing: Do we designate one of us to submit the final product or do we each submit the same thing? Thanks to all who are contributing, Annette

Hello Team Ana, I added information in the background section but didn't sign my name to it, sorry guys, just wants everyone to know that I have been following along and contributed and noticed today that everyone signed their name to the end of a section they worked on. Adrian

Thanks, Adrian. I wasn't sure about adding names or not either. Annette

Hi All, I agree it looks like a good report. Adrian

Evaluation Summary (Ana)

IEP Goals and Objectives (Ana)

Group Participants:


 * 1) Marla R.
 * 2) Carissa N.
 * 3) Beth M.
 * 4) Whitney C.
 * 5) Adrian M.
 * 6) Annette L.
 * 7) Grace K.
 * 8) Jennifer H.

Here is some information you will need for this week’s activity. Each group is serving the role of a practicing TVI and you have one student, either, Ana or Jason on your caseload which you are required to review the assessment protocols, and write separate narrative reports (as a group) summarizing the results of these evaluations with any appropriate visual efficiency goals and objectives. Luckily, you have already "done" the evaluations, and all you have left to do is **// t__o write up short narrative reports, determine their present levels of performance (strengths and needs), and suggest a goal and 2-3 objectives for each student__ //**__ (make sure to look at information on IEP goals and objectives posted on Blackboard). __ To refresh your memory, you will need to review the assessment protocols (ignore the dates) and follow this example. The total amount of points for this assignment is 25 points: 15 points for the write up and 10 points from self and peers in your group.

The first student, Ana, is a 13 year old, 7th grade female At Maple Middle School who is partially sighted (ignore the dates on the documents). She has been an only child until recently, and lives with both her parents and her baby sister. Her ethnicity is Caucasian/Hispanic, but she speaks only English. The only special education services Ana receives are from a vision service provider and a case manager based at PMS. Ana has just moved into the district, but the district has not been able to obtain her prior special education records.
 * __ Ana __**

Ana's IEP team is required to conduct an annual review this year. Her educational team consists of seven general education teachers, a vision service provider/orientation and mobility specialist, a case manager, her father, and her mother. While you have to make sure that Ana’s medical records are also up-to-date, you are also required to conduct an educational low vision evaluation on her, which you have done (see attached file). She has previously received a clinical low vision evaluation and has been prescribed with optical aids. Furthermore, you are required to summarize information about her medical diagnosis and severity of impairment in layman's terms. It is helpful to consult your textbooks used during your master's program as well as reputable internet sites. According to Ana's parents, her previous case manager labeled her as having a perceptual communicative disability because she was not achieving on grade level