>> Glover: [Slide start] What we have done and what the law is now asking us to do is take the referral process back from the VIs. The VIs used to hold all the French fries, and they told us when we had to get out and do an O and M veal and when we didn’t. What we’re doing now and what the law is asking us to do is take that referral process back. Take back those French fries so that we can decide who gets an O and M eval and who does not. [Slide end] [Slide start] This has been very much a process for us and we know that it’s not something that can be done over night. We started talking about this, goodness, I’d say back in 08. We believed in doing evaluations for everyone. Amy had come from a district where she had done that and had seen the results of there were certain students that would have never been referred for O and M that by doing an O and M evaluation on everyone she was able to find and they benefitted from O and M. So we committed to that and in 2009 2010 we decided to try doing the O and M section of the functional vision evaluation. You know your VIs have to address that, and we felt we were better qualified to make that recommendation so we tried that at first. What we found was when you do the annual count it doesn’t count. We still felt that it was the best thing to do for kids to get out there and see all those students, but that doesn’t up your percentages on how many are actually getting a full orientation and mobility evaluation. So in 2010 and 2011 we developed a new O and M referral process where we were actually doing O and M evaluations and we'll  talk about that a little bit more. In 2013 and 14 we knew that the new law had passed, and that's this year, so we have changed and tweaked our referral process and now we have what we’re calling the latest and greatest. It may change again because we know that the Commissioners rules from TEA will be coming out in January and that may change. Right now we’re in the trying to interpret the law portion of time so we’ll see. And then of course beginning next year ya better have something going because that law has to be implemented. [Slide end] [Slide start] We tried doing functionals, doing the O and M section of the functional, and then we decided we wanted to actually do orientation and mobility evaluations on everybody. So this is the referral process- the first one we tried and we've since moved on from this. So we asked [Slide end] [Slide start] for our diagnosticians and our VIs to have us do an orientation and mobility evaluation at all VI intake meetings and that has stayed consistent. The law is asking us to do that. So again, when a student is trying to become qualified as a student with a visual impairment, the testing that we will ask for is a functional vision evaluation, a learning media assessment, and an orientation and mobility evaluation to determine VI eligibility. And we have had situations where a VI may not have qualified that kid, but we’ve felt they needed O and M so we ended up qualifying them for VI based on their need for orientation and mobility. [Slide end] [Slide start] Our original process where we tried to evaluate everyone asked the VIs to request another O and M evaluation any time a new functional vision evaluation or learning media assessment was being done. We knew that it wasn’t enough to do an orientation and mobility evaluation on a student who may be four years old and you’ve done that one O and M eval but the law requires at their intake meeting to qualify them for VI but to never see them again they may end up needing O and M again later on. So we wanted to find a way to touch back with those kids to go back and look at them again. So we started out saying if you do another functional vision evaluation, request another O and M eval. We have changed that because they don’t always do more functional vision evaluations. You may have a student who their eyes have been removed and the VI chooses not to do another functional. So we found some some holes and some weaknesses in that procedure. [Slide end] [Slide start] This is the last part of our procedure that works in our district in Cy Fair and you’ll have to look at what works in your district. This is paperwork. We have certain paperwork that we do. We ask the diagnostician who’s our kind of point person on our campuses, you may have a different person at your campus. We’re asking them to have the parents fill out and sign the O and M information form. That for us is essentially a parent permission form that gives them informed consent that we may be doing different things like- looking at their student in the dark and how they travel or going off campus. And this is just paperwork where we're asking them to send us what we need to do our job. The eye report, a copy of the IEP meeting, you may call it an ARD, so that is all a part of our process.  [Slide end] [Slide start] We said that we’ve even revised this further and here’s our latest and greatest what we’re using now and giving out. And again, it may change. But this is what it looks like [Slide end] [Slide start] and we’re handing this out to everyone that we can so that they know in our huge district what we’re asking them to do. [Slide end] [Slide start] And here is the procedure broken down. So we’re asking them- you’ll notice that this is really the same as our old procedure. What we’ve done is gone in and used language that aligns with the law. So our new procedure says, 'Request an O and M evaluation as part of the Full Individual initial Evaluation to determine a student’s eligibility for special education on the basis of visual impairment.' Again it’s just saying that if you’re trying to get a student initially qualified for VI they must have an O & M veal. But we’ve put the law language in there. [Slide end] [Slide start] Okay so this is what we changed. That part of the law that talks about an O and M must be involved in the scope of any reevaluation. We looked at that again. And we said okay the law is even stronger than what we were trying to do in our district. So this is what we’ve written as the second part of our referral process and you’ll need to develop your own what works for you. And again it has the legal terms we took the law and applied it into our procedure. 'When considering the scope of any reevaluation for a student with a visual impairment, please contact the Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist on your campus or Donna Lynn Glover as part of the multidisciplinary team that determines if an additional- additional O and M evaluation is needed.' What we’re finding is if there’s already an O and M on that campus- if KC is already seeing a student on that campus then the diagnostician can just come to him and say you know Johnny Scout had an orientation and mobility evaluation six years ago they didn’t qualify but you know what they're coming up for that reevaluation which happens every three years and they’ll say would you take a look at that kiddo and KC will do that if he’s on that campus. We had a lot of students with visual impairments on campuses where we did not have an O and M regularly going because there was no student with O and M at that campus. So if that was the situation we want to let that campus know what they can do so we just said call me, Donna, and I would assign someone- we would get together and say who could come out and do that and we would assign someone to that campus. We’re finding that we’re being assigned to campuses now that we never were before because there are students with visual impairments at that campus. [Slide end] [Slide start] And this is just a repeat the third portion of our process is just a repeat of what we had before and it’s paperwork. 'If and O and M evaluation is requested, have the student’s parents fill out and sign the O and M information form. Give pink copy- you know, all that kind of stuff- to the parent. Put the white copy in the ARD paperwork. Send the yellow copy to Donna along with the eye report. That’s just all paperwork things that we decided that we needed. [Slide end]