Kristie Smith has been an educator for the past 34 years in the Dallas area. She has worked with children from grades K-8 in general education, English as a Second Language, and for the past 16 years, has been a teacher for the blind and visually impaired.
I am a graduate of Florida School for the Deaf and Blind.
After receiving my M.A. in Orientation & Mobility from Western Michigan University, I spent 6 years teaching O&M to students ages 3-21 in the Washington, DC metro area.
I currently serve as the Iowa Deafblind Project Coordinator. Before moving to the Deafblind Project I spent 8 years working with students with visual impairments as a TVI.
I am a Teacher of the Visually Impaired, Orientation and Mobility Specialist, and Assessment Center Coordinator at California School for the Blind.
I am a teacher of children with visually impairments (TVI) at Mitat Enc School for the Blind in Turkey. I invite you to visit my website: http://www.cokengelsiz.com/.
Kathi Garza is a TVI and an Early Childhood consultant in the Outreach Department at Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. She has worked in the classroom with students who have visual impairments and complex access needs, as well as in Short-Term and Summer Programs.
I have been a Teacher of the Visually Impaired since 2015. Before that I was a special education teacher at the high school and middle school level mostly.
I am an Outreach Consultant for the Kentucky School for the Blind. I enjoy providing trainings for the Teachers of the Visually Impaired in South Central Kentucky and sharing my 35 years of experience teaching in the fields of hearing impaired and vision impaired.
