Hi All i am happy to announce the hiring of a new faculty person at Hunter College for our programs in BVI and Severe and Multiple Disabilities including Deafblindness. Welcome Beth Brady! Beth Brady was an adjunct lecturer at Hunter College starting in 2016, teaching foundation classes in severe and multiple disabilities, in addition to hosting numerous Hunter student teachers in her middle school classroom through the years. Beth received her Advanced Certificate in BVI from Hunter College. Prior to accepting a full-time tenure track position at Hunter College, Beth was an itinerant teacher of students with visual impairments in the New York City Public Schools, after beginning her career as a classroom special education teacher of learners with severe/multiple disabilities in New York City’s District 75 and at the Boston College Campus School. Beth will defend her dissertation this fall at Teachers College, Columbia University. It is entitled, “Augmented Input and the Classroom Communication Environment for Learners with Deafblindness,” and explores using group design methods with this low incidence population. Beth received both her B.A. in Elementary Education and American Heritages and a M.Ed. in Severe Special Needs, with a concentration in deafblindness, from Boston College. Regards Ellen Ellen Trief, EdD Professor Hunter College in Blind and Visually Impaired and Severe/Multiple Disabilities 212 772-4110