Program in Visual Impairments San Francisco State University

01/09/2023

Introducing our Fall 2022 student teachers on the final seminar day, marking the newest cohort to join other colleagues in the field! No better place to celebrate our community than at the 🥳

10/23/2022

So exciting to resume our in-person Lab Weekend! The fall “eye class” meets and for 2 days of learning about functional vision assessments and the role of clinics in supporting our VI students.

10/14/2022

05/21/2022

We are T-minus 25 minutes to our first ever joint virtual graduation recognition ceremony with the O&M program! All are invited to watch the public livestream and celebrate our 2022 TVI and O&M grads!

Watch the ceremony and explore our graduation site to learn more about what our grads are up to:

The Program in Visual Impairments and the O&M Program at San Francisco State University offers teaching credential, master’s, and doctoral training in blindness and visual impairments.

05/10/2022

It's here! Building on last year's forums on Comics for Blind/Low Vision Readers, 's Accessible Comics Collective seeks proposals for teams to make comics in accessible formats & help push the comics industry forward! Please share widely! CFP/details: https://bit.ly/comicsa11y-cfp-2022

10/15/2021

Don’t miss this FREE event this weekend! Poster with text: Superfest Disability Film Festival. Celebrating 35 years. Get your virtual tickets at superfestfilm.com. October 15, 16, 17. ASL, captioning, and audio description provided. Free tickets available. Images: there are multiple circles of various film stills. One features an illustration of a white woman with Down syndrome wearing a multicolor shirt, one features a drawing of a blind Japanese woman, and another features a Black woman dancing.

09/28/2021

TechTalk #10: 3D Printing for Nonvisual Geometry Instruction - register now to join Mon., 10/4, 7pm PT! Free to all and will be recorded. https://bit.ly/techtalk-3dgeometry

Image: triangle and cone 3D models used to teach rotation around a vertical axis

09/12/2021

In case you missed it...the full playlist from our recent one-day symposium "Adapting Comics for Blind and Low Vision Readers" is now published! Check out the full playlist to watch the day's events in chapter format. Please share freely and widely: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzjQM5GnQBGI2XRwTfOfdIzgQTh5PI0GJ

08/04/2021

Meet Monique Coleman TVI, and newest member of our adjunct faculty! Check out her work at the intersection of and

07/22/2021

1st Symposium 8/12, 9a-4p PT! Expert panels will discuss accessible design with audio/tactile/haptics, & best practices when depicting blindness in media. Register: tinyurl.com/adaptingcomics Audio flyer: bit.ly/comicsA11Y-2021

05/13/2021

Happening today at 7pm PDT!
Register for our final webinar and learn about a 3D printed geometry curriculum for blind and low vision learners: https://bit.ly/3h5rnI7
This event will not be recorded, so get it while it's hot! Post-webinar resources will be available at http://www.nonscriptum.com/geometry

Hosted by the SF State VI Program and presented by Nonscriptum, this free webinar will showcase lessons 11-15 in our final development of lesson plans for supporting nonvisual access to geometry concepts. This webinar will not be recorded; resources and a Q&A document will be posted on Nonscriptum's...