CTEVH is now CTEBVI

CA Transcribers and Educators for the Blind and Visually Impaired

At the final business meeting on Sunday, March 15, CTEVH members were asked for the final time to consider a name change for our organization.  Several suggestions were made but only one motion was offered:  CA Transcribers and Educators for the Blind and Visually Impaired.  The discussion that followed was lively and informative. 

There was no support at all for continuing the characterization of blindness and visual impairment as being synonymous.  There was no support for either being considered a handicap. 

The question was called and the vote taken:  It was unanimous!  CTEVH will begin immediately to become CTEBVI.  Watch for the many changes that will need to take place for CTEVH, Inc. to actually become CTEBVI, Inc., everything from refiling legal documents to migrating to a new website.  Of course, we already purchased the new domain and the transition should be seamless to our visitors.

We will be continuing to celebrate over the coming year and to get all the legal steps taken to actually become CTEBVI, Inc.

Please put our 51st annual conference on your calendar:  April 23-25, 2010 at LAX Marriott.  Watch for group code and more announcements.

Please send us ideas and wishes to fill our new pages that could make a world of difference for you and hundreds -- thousands? -- of other visitors.

CTEBVI is a unique organization of:

• Transcribers, both volunteer and professional
• Educators, including resource teachers and itinerant teachers
• Orientation & Mobility Specialists
• Rehabilitation counselors and counselor-teachers
• Administrators, both school and agency
• Parents of visually impaired children
• Librarians
• Paraprofessionals
• Students, both those learning to work with persons who are visually impaired and those who are visually impaired themselves
• Many other advocates for the special needs of individuals living with blindness and visual impairment.

CTEBVI Business Plan and Financial Statements

CTEBVI is a forum:
Members share their expertise through links at this website, through pages of The CTEBVI Journal, the annual Conference, and special workshops. Invaluable person-to-person contacts develop into friendships leading to exchange of information on techniques and resources.

During the next several months, you will see lots of changes to this Website. We hope you concur with the direction the CTEBVI board is taking and will let us know your thoughts. Please tell us how we are doing: Write to Grant Horrocks, president, at siloti@sbcglobal.net or administrator@ctebvi.org. Thank you in advance for your comments.

Please direct any website problems to webmaster@ctebvi.org