Statewide Outreach Services
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To make a referral for a teacher of the visually impaired (TVI) or orientation and mobility services (O&M) please use the link below. Please note that the referral must also include consent for evaluation as well as a copy of the most recent eye report.
Mission
USDB Outreach Vision Services provides students with blindness and low vision, including those with additional disabilities, who are attending their neighborhood schools, with the skills to lead successful and fulfilling lives. We collaborate with communities, schools, and families, using research based assessments, curriculum, the expanded core, and innovative teaching strategies to achieve the highest level of independence in the home, school, and community.
Services
Outreach Vision Services serves students in Utah with visual impairments or blindness attending their neighborhood school districts or charter schools. Our USB outreach Teachers of Students with Vision Impairments (TSVI’s) provide one-on-one vision support based on a student’s Individualized Education Plan (IEP) or 504 Plan. We specialize in the delivery of instruction in the expanded core curriculum – the skills visually impaired individuals require to succeed in the home, school, and community. This may include Braille (we teach braille across the entire State of Utah), technology, and social skills instruction, career education, self-advocacy skills (to name a few); we assist in providing large print, braille, digital texts, learning materials, or other appropriate equipment so students can access their school curriculums. TSVI’s collaborate with the regular education teacher, special education team, and parents in the IEP or 504 process.
Outreach Vision Services also includes Orientation and Mobility (O&M) support to students who are blind and visually impaired that need specialized instruction in traveling safely in their environments. The O&M instructors provide teaching and consultation in school districts across the state on the proper cane techniques as well as safe low vision travel skills. This is done with students ages 3-21 but consultation also takes place for children from birth to 3 years old in our Parent Infant Program. Assessments and strategies are implemented on an individual basis to ensure each student has the skills required for safe cane travel in a variety of educational settings.
In everything we do, the focus at the Utah School for the Blind is to provide personalized education to meet the individual needs of each student and promote their development into educated, capable, and confident adults.
Brandon Watts
Director of Outreach Vision Services
801-464-2035
Sharon Draper
Assistant Director of Outreach Vision Services
801-464-2035
Shelly Peterson
Secretary of Outreach Vision Services
801-464-2051
Outreach Teachers of the Visually Impaired
Alex Westergard alexwe@usdb.org – Cache and Box Elder School Districts
Amber Jensen amberj@usdb.org – Jordan School District
Clorinda Galbraith clorindag@usdb.org – Ogden School District and Kenneth Burdett School for the Deaf (KBS)
Jenny Hooper jennyh@usdb.org – Murray School District
Jessica Brown jessicab@usdb.org – Park City School District, No. Salt Lake Charter Schools and Jean Massieu School for the Deaf (JMS)
Lis Thomsen listh@usdb.org - Utah Co. and So. Salt Lake Charter Schools
Janna Slye jannas@usdb.org – Iron Co. School District and St. George area Charter Schools
Lisa Nebeker lisan@usdb.org – Cache and Logan School Districts
Lori Miller loraliem@usdb.org – Jordan School District
Marcela Conger marcelac@usdb.org – Cache and Logan School Districts
Miika Brunson miikab@usdb.org – Uintah and Duchesne School Districts
Nancy Nielson nancyn@usdb.org – Millard, Juab, and Tooele School Districts
Pam Sitterud pamelas@usdb.org – Emery and Carbon School Districts
Reid Sifford reids@usdb.org – Grand and San Juan School Districts
Madelyn Stafford madelyns@usdb.org – Canyons School District
MacKayla Rippstein mackaylab@usdb.org – Sevier, S. Sanpete, and N. Sanpete School Districts
Suzy Blackham suzyb@usdb.org – Tooele School Districts
Michelle Federkeil michellef@usdb.org Iron, Beaver, Kane, and Garfield School Districts
Brittany Southworth, brittanys@usdb.org – Provo School District
Cathy Cartwright, cathyc@usdb.org – Ogden School District and local Charter Schools
Suzy Daniels, suzyd@usdb.org – Cache, Logan, and Box Elder School Districts
Amanda Langston, amandala@usd.org – Jordan School District
Jordon Corley, jordonc@usdb.org – Tooele School District
Lynnda Biek, lynndab@usdb.org – St. George Charter School
Caralee Page, caraleep@usdb.org - Provo School District and So. Utah Co. Charter Schools
Rachel Boyce, rachelbo@usdb.org - Canyons School District
Melanie Evans, melaniee@usdb.org - Box Elder School District
Sarah Rogers, sarahr@usdb.org - Uintah and Duchesne School Districts
Orientation and Mobility Specialists
Christie Anderson, christiea@usdb.org - Jordan School District
Shirley Jimenez, shirleyj@usdb.org - Washington and Iron School Districts
Ewelina Meade, ewelinam@usdb.org– Murray School District, Salt Lake Campus programs
Carly Walker, carlyw@usdb.org - Granite School District
Kari Frederickson, karif@usdb.org – Cache, Box Elder, and Logan School Districts
LeeAndra Jones, leeandraj@usdb.org – Uintah and Duchesne School Districts
Linda Breeden, lindabr@usdb.org – Canyons School District
Marie Hollinger, marieh@usdb.org –Tooele School District
Melanie Manwaring, melaniem@usdb.org – S. Sanpete, N. Sanpete, and Emery School Districts
Melissa Chandler, melissach@usdb.org – Ogden School District and Ogden Campus programs
Nana Dewald, nanap@usdb.org – Wasatch, Park City, and South Summit, School Districts
Rachel Olsen, rachelb@usdb.org –Nebo School District and Springville Campus Programs
Shannon Brown, shannonb@usdb.org – Weber, and Morgan School Districts and Ogden area Charter Schools
Tammy Noble, tamaran@usdb.org –Washington and Kane School Districts
Jennifer Reben, jenniferre@usdb.org – Provo School District, Utah Co. and So. Salt Lake Charter Schools