[Promotion-technology] Fwd: Draft Guidelines for Educational Media Description

[David Andrews]

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> >>> "Shirley Landrum" <slandrum at afb.net> 2/25/2008 9:35 AM >>>
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>February, 2008
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>Dear Colleagues:
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>American Foundation for the Blind's Policy Center and Professional 
>Development Department are pleased to partner with the National 
>Association of the Deaf and its federally-funded Described and 
>Captioned Media Program (DCMP) to develop guidelines for the 
>description of educational media.  In 2007, AFB worked with service 
>providers and experts in media description to develop a set of draft 
>guidelines for educational media description that will increase the 
>availability of predominantly visual curriculum to children and 
>youths who are blind, have low vision or deaf-blind. The guidelines 
>include recommendations, suggestions, and best practices culled from 
>an extensive literature review that were then subjected to a 
>consensus review process by experts in description and education of 
>students with visual impairment.
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>AFB is eager to have members of the educational community, parents 
>of children with visual impairments, and the public give us feedback 
>on these guidelines and suggestions for items that may need more 
>explanation. The draft guidelines are on AFB's Web page at 
>www.afb.org/descriptionguidelines.asp.   We appreciate your 
>input.  We encourage you to distribute the link and note to other colleagues.
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>  For more information, contact Dr. Ferrell at Kay.Ferrell at unco.edu 
> or Mary Ann Siller at siller at afb.net.
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>Sincerely yours,
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>Kay Ferrell, Ph.D
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>Associate Director, Policy Research, American Foundation for the Blind and
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>Executive Director, National Center for Sensory and Severe 
>Disabilities (NCSSD)
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>Mary Ann Siller, M.Ed.
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>National Project Manager, Professional Development
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>American Foundation for the Blind
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>Shirley R. Landrum
>American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
>100 Peachtree Street, Suite 620
>Atlanta, GA  30303
>Phone:  404-525-2303
>FAX:     404-659-6957
>Email:  <mailto:slandrum at afb.net>slandrum at afb.net