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For the past several years, NMSBVI has partnered with a variety of early intervention organizations, educational institutions, families and other stakeholders to develop programs that are far-reaching throughout the state and that address the fluctuating needs of students who are blind/visually impaired and their families. We have partnered with New Mexico State University to develop a personnel preparation program that is available to any educator in the state who desires to gain the skills necessary to teach students who are blind. We have worked with the Public Education Department to create New Mexico licensure for Teachers of the Visually Impaired as a way to begin to ensure that all children needing these services can have access to a highly qualified teacher. Through a partnership with the Department of Health, we have developed a statewide program that serves infants and toddlers, aged birth to three who are or who are at risk for a diagnosis of visual impairment.

Beginning in July 2006, NMSBVI has made the next change in the process of serving students who do not wish to attend the residential campus. The Outreach Program for school-aged students has moved to Albuquerque and joined with the Early Childhood Program to create a solid, birth to twenty-two program, statewide, that serves our children. The program is made up of the birth to three program; a preschool in Albuquerque that has operated since 1974; and the school-aged program.