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The 142nd Annual Meeting of Ex Officio Trustees and Special Guests
American Printing House for the Blind, Inc.
October 14-16, 2010
Galt House Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

• Related Meetings
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Thursday, October 14, 2010

• Related Meetings
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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Opportunities at APH:

• 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
  Three-part tour featuring the APH Plant, Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind, and Hall of Fame
• 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
  Three-part tour featuring the APH Plant, Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind, and Hall of Fame

Thursday, October 14, 2010

• 7:30 am - 8:30 am
  APH Scholars Breakfast
• 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
  Annual Meeting Registration and Help Desk
• 11:00 am - 12:45 pm
  Luncheon Meeting of APH Ex Officio Trustee Advisory Committees
• 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm
  Educational Products (EPAC) Advisory Committee Meeting
• 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm
  Educational Services (ESAC) Advisory Committee Meeting
• 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  APH Products Showcase
• 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  APH InSights 2010 Art Exhibition
• 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
  Nominations Committee
• 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  Opening Session and Keynote Address
  • Welcome and Opening Remarks
    Tuck Tinsley, President, APH
  • Keynote Address
    Jim Gibbons, President and CEO, Goodwill Industries International, Inc.
  • American Foundation for the Blind Migel Medal Presentation
    Carl Augusto, Facilitator
  
  
• 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
  Welcome Reception
• 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm
  Hospitality Suite Open

Friday, October 15, 2010

• 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
  Registration and Help Desk
• 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
  APH Products Showcase
• 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
  APH InSights 2010 Art Exhibition
• 8:00 am - 9:00 am
  Breakfast
• 8:00 am - 9:00 am
  New Ex Officio Trustee Orientation and Breakfast
• 9:00 am - 10:00 am
  General Session I
  • A Day In DC - Highlights From the Hill
    Gary Mudd, Vice President, Public Affairs, APH
    Nancy Lacewell, APH
  • Advisory Committee Report Highlights - 2010
    • Educational Products Advisory Committee
      Nancy Niebrugge, Chair, and Ex Officio Trustee representing the Braille Institute of America
    • Educational Services Advisory Committee
      Frank Simpson, Chair, and Ex Officio Trustee representing the Lavelle School
  • Report on the State of the Company
    Tuck Tinsley, APH
• 10:00 am - 10:15 am
  BREAK
• 10:15 am - 11:45 pm
  Product Input Sessions
  
  • "American Ingenuity: Technology Products Input Ideas"
    Mike Cole, Consultant
    Larry Skutchan, Technology Project Leader, APH
    Mike Borsuk, Programmer, APH
    Keith Creasy, Programmer, APH
    Rob Meredith, Programmer, APH
    Ken Perry, Programmer, APH
    - Several members of the technology team will be on-hand to take suggestions from you about any of APH's technology products including Book Port Plus, Braille+, Refreshabraille18, and GPS for the Braille+.
  • "The Use of a Universal Set of Tangible Symbols for Students who are Visually and Multiply Impaired"
    Ellen Trief, Consultant
    Tristan Pierce, Multiple Disabilities Project Leader, APH
    -The results of a three year grant funded project which followed 51 students who are visually and multiply impaired from four New York City schools will be presented. The results of the student's use of the symbols as well as the process for deciding on the 26 most frequently requested tangible symbols will be discussed along with implications for APH product development.
  • "Functional Vision and Learning Media Assessment Across America"
    Rebecca Burnett, Consultant
    Kay Ratzlaff, Consultant
    LaRhea Sanford, Consultant
    Elaine Kitchel, Low Vision Project Leader, APH
    -Attendees will be treated to updates from Dr. LaRhea Sanford's experiences at National Instructional Parnerships training on the FV/LMA. Discussion and instruction will follow to answer the questions, "What are FV/LMA and NewT and how can these programs help me?" Attendees will also be offered an opportunity to provide input on NewT, now in development, and on ISAVE, currently slated for revision.
  • "A Tactile Continuum of Learning: Real Objects to Models to Raised-Line Graphics"
    Phil Hatlen, Consultant
    Fred Otto, Tactile Graphics Project Leader, APH
    Karen J. Poppe, Tactile Graphics Project Leader, APH
    -APH currently produces tactile graphics products that promote and encourage the tactile learning continuum from real objects to raised-line graphics. Help us plot a way to get the word out to parents and teachers "across America" about this necessary, systematic tactile learning strategy.
  • "Mapping the Way to Braille Literacy"
    Cay Holbrook, Consultant
    Eleanor Pester, Braille Project Leader, APH
    Loana Mason, Braille Literacy Project Leader, APH
    -The keys to successful travel include knowing where you are, deciding where you want to go, and determining the most effective route. This presentation will guide us through the trip planning process by exploring current braille projects, analyzing upcoming trends in braille, and creating a list of needed products. Bring your bag of ideas and wishes to help us plan the best journey to braille literacy.
  • "The Boehm Test of Basic Concepts"
    Kay Ferrell, Consultant
    Barbara Henderson, Test and Assessment Project Leader, APH
    -This session will discuss plans to adapt the Boehm Test of Basic Concept, 3d edition (Boehm-3) for young children who are blind or have low vision.
  
  
• 11:45 am - 1:30 pm
  Lunch Break
• 11:45 am - 1:30 pm
  Mandatory Training Meeting for Ex Officio Trustees
• 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
  General Session II
  • Introduction of 2010 APH Scholars
    Bob Brasher, Vice President of Advisory Services and Research, APH
  • California School for the Blind 150th Anniversary Celebration
    Stuart Wittenstein, Superintendent, and Ex Officio Trustee representing the California School for the Blind
  • APH Awards Presentations
    • 2010 Creative Use of Braille Award
      Presented to The Lucky Touch Fortune Cookie Company, winner of the Creative Use of Braille Award
    • 2010 Virgil Zickel Award
      Presented to Rebecca Burnett and LaRhea Sanford, for the Functional Vision/Learning Media Assessment (FV/LMA)
• 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
  Information Fair/Poster Sessions
  
  Travel our highway and get your kicks on Route 66 as you join some APH hep cats at our All American Diner! This year's poster sessions are sure to make you flip your lid, so come cast an eyeball on some boss new products and find out what's cookin'. While you're there, cool it for a few, refuel with some refreshments and find out how you could win a prize and even earn a little bread! Be sure to fill out your door prize form and drop it in the jukebox on your way out so we'll be hip to your tips about the following cool bits! You dig?
  
  • The Accessible Textbook Road Trip
  • Address: Earth, Section 2
  • APH on Capital Hill
  • Are Your Students Ready for Computer-Administered Testing?
  • Are Your Students Ready for Testing?
  • BEST for a NEST
  • Book Port Plus
  • Contract Services
  • The Hall of Fame 2010
  • Louis and the APH File Repository
  • New Collections in the APH Museum
  • NIMAC 2.0!
  • Orientation and Mobility Family Booklet Software is for You!
  • Print-To-Braille Textbooks
  • Quick Check Indexes: The Ultimate Guide to Braille
  • The Road to Test Accessibility
  • SRS And eCommerce
  • The Tactile Graphics Image Library
  • TADPOLE: Tools for the Assessment and Development of Visual Skills, Learners Level 0 - 2
  • TeachDNA: A Three-Dimensional Model Informed by Universal Design
  • A Touch of Color
  • WHY's, HOW's, WHAT's of Building on Patterns (BOP) Grade 1
• 4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
  Meet The Artists
• 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
  APH InSights Art Banquet and 2010 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
  • APH InSights Art Winners Awards Presentation
    Gary Mudd, APH
    Roberta Williams, APH
    Tuck Tinsley, APH
  • 2010 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
    Welcome and Brief History
    Jim Deremeik, Chair, Hall of Fame Governing Board
  • Introduction of Inductees
    Jane Erin, APH Executive in Residence
    Honoring:
    Morris Frank
    M.C. Migel
  • Closing Remarks
    Tuck Tinsley, APH
• 8:30 pm - 11:00 pm
  Hospitality Suite Open

Saturday, October 16, 2010

• 7:45 am - 8:45 am
  Buffet Breakfast
• 8:00 am - 11:30 pm
  Registration and Help Desk
• 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
  APH Products Showcase
• 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
  APH InSights 2009 Art Exhibition
• 8:15 am - 8:40 am
  General Session III
  • Coming Attractions - An Overview of Product Training Sessions
    Ralph Bartley, Director, Educational and Technical Research, APH
    Burt Boyer, Early Childhood Project Leader, APH
    Eleanor Pester, Braille Project Leader, APH
    Christine Roman-Lantzy, CVI Project Leader, APH
    Terrie Terlau, Adult Life Project Leader, APH
    Larry Skutchan, Technology Project Leader, APH
    Jeanette Wicker, Core Curriculum Consultant, APH
  
  
• 8:45 am - 10:00 am
  New Product Training Sessions
  • "This Land Is Your Land - The Orientation and Mobility Family Booklet Software: A Tool for Collaboration Between Instructors and O&M Students"
    Terrie Terlau, Adult Life Project Leader, APH
    -This presentation demonstrates the Orientation and Mobility Family Booklet software and involves the audience in creating a collaborative booklet for a student's family.
  • "With Freedom and Accessibility for All: Taking Advantage of what Book Port Plus has to Offer"
    Mike Cole
    Larry Skutchan
    Ken Perry
    -Want to participate in life, liberty and the pursuit of information? If so, this session is for you. After a brief overview of Daisy and it's advantages, participants will learn how to play and record Digital Talking Books on the Book Port Plus, how to use Daisy navigation features, sign up for NLS, RFBD, and Bookshare content and how to download and find that content on the Book Port Plus. Participants will also create their own Digital Talking Book and put it on an NLS flash cartridge for distribution to others!
  • "When Red, White, AND Blue Is Too Much: CVI Complexity Sequences"
    Christine Roman, CVI Project Leader, APH
    -This session will demonstrate uses for CVI Sequences, a product for students who have difficulty with the CVI characteristic behavior of visual complexity. Learn how this assessment tool can help determine student success and be used as part of an intervention protocol to directly teach skills related to difficulties with visual complexity. Prerequisite skills needed to use CVI Complexity Sequences will be presented and examples of instructional strategies will be offered.
  • "American Pi - Math Skills from Manipulatives to 3D Geometry"
    Aniceta Skowron, Consultant
    Derrick Smith, Consultant
    Burt Boyer, Early Childhood Project Leader, APH
    -Presenters will provide training and techniques for teaching math skills to visually impaired students with a review of Focus on Math, an overview and update of MathBuilders, and demonstrations of the Geometro materials.
  • "A Guided Tour Through Building on Patterns"
    Cay Holbrook
    Eleanor Pester
    -The tour will begin with an overview of the BOP literacy program. We will look at where we started, where we are now, and where we hope to go. You will have hands-on experience with BOP-1 materials as we travel through a lesson and a unit, calling attention to points of interest along the way.
  • "Beyond Dick and Jane: Early Braille Trade Books"
    Jeanette Wicker, Consultant
    -Dick and Jane books may just be a fond memory, but finding the right books for your beginning braille reader has just become easier! The Early Braille Trade Books Project provides commercially available books with braille labels and access to a web site with information about the book which supports the teacher's selection of appropriate titles. Learn about the levels of picture dependence in early trade books and teacher intervention needed to support the child's reading and understanding of the text.
• 10:00 am - 10:15 am
  TRAVEL BREAK
• 10:15 am - 11:30 am
  New Product Training Sessions
  • "This Land Is Your Land - The Orientation and Mobility Family Booklet Software: A Tool for Collaboration Between Instructors and O&M Students"
    Terrie Terlau, Adult Life Project Leader, APH
    -This presentation demonstrates the Orientation and Mobility Family Booklet software and involves the audience in creating a collaborative booklet for a student's family.
  • "With Freedom and Accessibility for All: Taking Advantage of what Book Port Plus has to Offer"
    Mike Cole
    Larry Skutchan
    Ken Perry
    -Want to participate in life, liberty and the pursuit of information? If so, this session is for you. After a brief overview of Daisy and it's advantages, participants will learn how to play and record Digital Talking Books on the Book Port Plus, how to use Daisy navigation features, sign up for NLS, RFBD, and Bookshare content and how to download and find that content on the Book Port Plus. Participants will also create their own Digital Talking Book and put it on an NLS flash cartridge for distribution to others!
  • "When Red, White, AND Blue Is Too Much: CVI Complexity Sequences"
    Christine Roman, CVI Project Leader, APH
    -This session will demonstrate uses for CVI Sequences, a product for students who have difficulty with the CVI characteristic behavior of visual complexity. Learn how this assessment tool can help determine student success and be used as part of an intervention protocol to directly teach skills related to difficulties with visual complexity. Prerequisite skills needed to use CVI Complexity Sequences will be presented and examples of instructional strategies will be offered.
  • "American Pi - Math Skills from Manipulatives to 3D Geometry"
    Aniceta Skowron, Consultant
    Derrick Smith, Consultant
    Burt Boyer, Early Childhood Project Leader, APH
    -Presenters will provide training and techniques for teaching math skills to visually impaired students with a review of Focus on Math, an overview and update of MathBuilders, and demonstrations of the Geometro materials.
  • "A Guided Tour Through Building on Patterns"
    Cay Holbrook
    Eleanor Pester
    -The tour will begin with an overview of the BOP literacy program. We will look at where we started, where we are now, and where we hope to go. You will have hands-on experience with BOP-1 materials as we travel through a lesson and a unit, calling attention to points of interest along the way.
  • "Beyond Dick and Jane: Early Braille Trade Books"
    Jeanette Wicker, Consultant
    -Dick and Jane books may just be a fond memory, but finding the right books for your beginning braille reader has just become easier! The Early Braille Trade Books Project provides commercially available books with braille labels and access to a web site with information about the book which supports the teacher's selection of appropriate titles. Learn about the levels of picture dependence in early trade books and teacher intervention needed to support the child's reading and understanding of the text.
  
  
• 11:30 am - 11:40 am
  TRAVEL BREAK
• 11:40 am - 12:30 pm
  General Session IV
  
  • Door Prize Presentation
    Monica Turner, Field Services Representative, APH
    Will Evans, Products and Services Advisor, APH
  • A Report from the APH Executive in Residence: Wilson Reading, Woodcock Johnson, Developing Visual Efficiency and More!
    Jane Erin
  • Closing Remarks
    Bob Brasher
    Janie Blome, Director of Field Services, APH
• 12:40 pm- 2:00 pm
  Mandatory Ex Officio Trustee Luncheon
• 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm
  Related Meetings and Events
  See separate schedule
• 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  Opening of Orientation and Mobility Archives and O&M 50th Anniversary Reception (at APH)
• 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm
  Riverboat Dinner Cruise/Dance

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