Both the statewide staff development project and the personnel preparation project have seen many of their efforts start to move from the drawing board to implementation, and the new mentorship program is about to take off. In May this workshop will take place in Silsbee, and we have tentative plans to offer this workshop in Nacogdoches, San Antonio, Bryan, and Victoria during the 1998-99 school year. Parents of children with Usher Syndrome are hoping to come together once again early this summer to share and make plans on how to improve their access to information and support. The VI Registry is completed and the Deafblind Census is about to be completed for 1998.
Requests keep coming in for APH materials.
Quality Programming for Visually Impaired training continues around the state along with work on the Regional Student Progress Indicators in all of the Education Service Center areas. Many of the local Texas Commission for the Blind offices, local school districts, and parent support groups have planned a variety of local and regional workshops for families. We hope all of you are equally busy and feeling equally happy about the many activities taking place in Texas which will help to improve educational and rehabilitative services available to children with visual impairments and deafblindness and their families.