Monday, February 7, 2011

Thoughts on Systemic Needs of a Quality Deaf-Blind TA Project Network

Posted by:  D. Jay Gense, Director, NCDB

     Numerous conversations have surfaced recently on how we construct an “improved” national Deaf-Blind Network. Improving the Deaf-Blind Network’s connectivity and productivity ran as a central theme for the Fall Deaf-Blind Leadership meeting, held in Washington D.C. on November 18-19, 2010. For example, OSEP Project Officer, Dr. Anne Smith, opened the meeting with remarks about the “New Normal … Doing More With Less.”  She emphasized several points about this new normal, identifying the present as a time to “explore alternatives to old ways of doing things … challenging the status quo.”