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Parent praises Utah Schools for the Blind early intervention program during public comment
Summary
A Salt Lake City parent told the Utah State Board of Education that the Parent Infant Program for Blind and Visually Impaired at the Utah Schools for the Blind provided essential early support after her child's diagnosis, describing multi-year services and community connections that helped her family.
Sarah Herb, a parent of a 10-year-old charter school student in Salt Lake City, told the Utah State Board of Education during the public comment period that the Parent Infant Program for Blind and Visually Impaired (PIP BVI) at the Utah Schools for the Blind provided critical support after her child’s diagnosis.
Herb said her daughter was diagnosed at five months with optic nerve hypoplasia and that the condition “was an…
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