Read OPVIC’s January 29, 2023 letter to Ontario’s Minister of Education, seeking a meeting to kick-start improvements for students with vision loss in Ontario schools.

January 31st, 2023

Ontario Parents of Visually Impaired Children (OPVIC) Previously known as Views for The Visually Impaired Web: www.opvic.ca Email: opvicfeedback@gmail.com Twitter: @_OPVIC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OPVICCanada   OPVIC NEWSLETTER January 30, 2023   We hope all OPVIC members and your families have had a great start to 2023. We want to send you a quick update on our […]

Check out the First Edition of the New OPVIC Newsletter!

July 4th, 2022

Ontario Parents of Visually Impaired Children (OPVIC) Previously known as Views for The Visually Impaired Web: www.opvic.ca Email: opvicfeedback@gmail.com Twitter: @_OPVIC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OPVICCanada OPVIC NEWSLETTER July 4, 2022 Belated happy Canada Day. We are sending you this OPVIC Newsletter because you are in our records as a member of OPVIC. Who, you may ask, is […]

The Long Saga of OPVIC Advocating for Reform to the Training  of Teachers of the Visually Impaired, and the Need for Far More TVIs to Be Available to Students with Vision Loss in Ontario

June 1st, 2022

Since early January 2018, OPVIC, earlier operating under the name Views, tried valiantly to get the Ontario Government and the Ontario College of Teachers to reform and strengthen the training requirements for teachers of the visually impaired, and to increase the number of TVIs and orientation and mobility specialists available in Ontario. It has been […]

VIEWS Brief to Ontario Ministry of Education on Educating for Students with Vision Loss

May 31st, 2022

Brief to the Ministry of Education Calling for a Ministry Review of Services in Ontario for Students Who are Blind, Low Vision or Deaf-blind Attention: Martyn Beckett, Assistant Deputy Minister of Education for Special Education Email:  Martyn.Beckett@ontario.ca Cathy Montreuil, Assistant Deputy Minister of Education for the Student Achievement Division Email: Cathy.Montreuil@ontario.ca CC: Mitzie Hunter, Minister […]