LEARN Conference 2023 - Lecture Session D3: Empowering Families of Children with Multiple Disabilities: Building Resiliency and Early Skills for a Brighter Future
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Focus on the importance of individualized teaching strategies for both families and children who have disabilities. Consider the importance of a family-centered approach, building resiliency in families, and how to then approach supporting their child in early learning skills.
Samantha Eyley
Program Manager, Educational Leadership Program
Perkins School for the Blind
Samantha is a Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments and Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist at the Perkins School for the Blind in Massachusetts, USA. She received both her Bachelor's and Master's from Florida State University where studied visual impairments. Samantha is now working on her doctorate in Educational Leadership and Administration at Boston College. She has worked in the field for almost a decade and has taught in a variety of programs with students between the ages of 3 and 22. Samantha has spent her career focused on providing literacy instruction and technology skills for all ages but has recently transitioned to working directly with teachers across the world. Samantha is currently the Program Manager of the Educational Leadership Program for Perkins International where she focuses on training teachers from around the world in best practices for working with students who have disabilities.
Lisa Jacobs
Director of Educational Leadership Program
Perkins School for the Blind
Lisa A. Jacobs has been a teacher of children who are deafblind for over 30 years. She received her undergraduate from Kutztown University in Pennsylvania in elementary and special education and her master's degree in Deafblind/Multihandicapped Education from Boston College. Lisa designed and created a resource room at Elwyn Institutes and taught adult education courses. After moving to Boston, she has worked at Perkins School for the Blind for the last 34 years where she has been able to experience a variety of roles and responsibilities; vocational teacher, consultant and later coordinator for New England Center Deafblind Project, DB-LINK, Community programs serving infants in their homes and school contracts for learners who are deafblind. Lisa has served on the boards of Deafblind Contact Center in Massachusetts and Deaf Blind Citizens in Action and is a INSITE/VIISA model teacher trainer. For five years, she has been the project coordinator for the Seeing Is Believing Projects in East Africa and Shanxi China, projects that help to get children of all ages proper eye care and connect them with the appropriate educational services. Currently, she is the Director of the Educational Leadership Program at Perkins School for the Blind mentoring educational leaders from all over the globe. www.perkins.org/elp
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