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Welcome to the Overbrook School for the Blind International Program

The International Program has been an integral part of the OSB since 1985. It started as a 10-month, on-campus program and gradually transformed into an international outreach program.

From 1985 to 1999, the on-campus International program provided training in Access Technology, English, Orientation and Mobility, Public Speaking, Social Skills, and Leadership Development to over 300 individuals from over 40 countries.

Today, the International Outreach Program places an emphasis on promoting the use of assistive technology to expand education and employment opportunities for persons with visual impairment worldwide. The Eastern European Network on Access Technology for Blind and Visually Impaired Persons (EENAT), was our first international outreach project. With funding from the Soros Foundation, it was launched in 1996 in Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovak Republic and expanded to Estonia, Latvia, and Romania in 1999. This project provided national and regional trainings, training materials and equipment, established an online Discussion List, and created a series of publications and a regional conference.  Over 5,000 individuals benefited from the project. At least 12 OSB International Program graduates and five staff members provided direct services towards the success of this project during its operation.

Following the success of EENAT, OSB launched the Overbrook-Nippon Network on Educational Technology (ON-NET) in 1998 in Thailand and soon expanded it to Malaysia, the Philippines, Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Laos. Thanks to an endowment from the Nippon Foundation, Myanmar officially joined ON-NET in 2004.

ON-NET has teamed with local partners to tackle local, national, and regional needs in education and employment in coordination with the Regional Advisory Committee (RAC). Projects include training sessions at established training centers, employment assistance for persons with visual impairment, and development of products for the visually impaired, such as Braille translation software. Today, ON-NET is very active in Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, and Vietnam.

The Overbrook China Initiative (OCI) was established at the request of Chinese partners, and funds came from the former John Milton Society for the Blind. This project was completed in 3 phases. The first phase (2005-2010) brought together nine schools for the blind who shared information through annual workshops and established an online Discussion List. The second phase (2010-2015) paired the schools with a educational partner which hosted school-wide training and webinars on assistive technology. The third phase (2015-2016) concluded back here at home with short-term study-tours for teachers (4 weeks) and administrators (2 weeks).

In total, the OCI project carried out a total of seven annual workshops, ten school-wide trainings, 15 webinars, and a Low Vision training with over 800 participants including teachers, parents, students, and medical professionals.

The OSB International Program has collaborated extensively with the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment (ICEVI) and together, we are working to bring changes for the betterment of the lives of visually impaired persons around the world. With ICEVI, we published a book entitled, “Mathematics Made Easy” (a free copy can be downloaded from www.icevi.org/publications/index.htm); a TTS/screen-reader in Burmese; and a project on “Capacity Building on Math Teaching for Blind Students” in Indonesia.

The OSB International Program has made a difference and will continue to bring equality and opportunity to students with visual impairments in underdeveloped nations.


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ICEVI Launches Math YouTube Channel for VI

ICEVI Launches Math YouTube Channel

We are so pleased to share the news that Larry Campbell, President Emeritus ICEVI and Todd Reeves, CEO, Overbrook School for the Blind, Philadelphia jointly inaugurated the ICEVI MATH MADE EASY YouTube Channel at the OSB on 4th September 2019. You can access the channel here and view 30 instructional videos on mathematics education for visually impaired children.

Please subscribe to the channel and also share this news with teachers of visually impaired children, parents, teacher educators and all those who are interested in the education of children with visual impairment. We will be uploading another 20 videos in September and more videos will be uploaded on a regular basis. We hope teachers will find these instructional videos useful to make mathematics easy for visually impaired children. Please feel free to email your comments and suggestions for improving the video instructional materials.

With kind regards,
Mani, M N G
CEO, ICEVI


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