Dr. Irene Topor is an
adjunct associate professor for the specialization in visual impairment
at the University of Arizona in Tucson. For the last 16 years, she has
prepared teachers to work with children who are blind or visually
impaired.
Her job
responsibilities include teaching the basic and advanced low vision and
visual functioning and methods of teaching students who have visual
impairments courses. She also places and supervises students in practica
and internship sites in Tucson and Northern Arizona. She is certified
as a low vision therapist and teacher of children with visual
impairments.
Dr. Topor is the
coordinator (2005-2010) of the Native American/Northern Arizona program
to prepare 8 teachers in the area of visual impairment on the Navajo
reservation in Northern Arizona. Dr. Topor has authored and coauthored
5 chapters in textbooks that are used by the field of visual impairment
on topics such as functional vision assessment, instruction of students
with low vision, diversity and visual impairment, and collaboration
among team members serving students with visual impairments. She worked
as a consultant to the Early Intervention Training Center for Infants
and Toddlers with Visual Impairments based at the University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill. Dr. Topor was lead author for the Visual
Conditions/Functional Vision Module. Dr. Topor was on the board to
establish the non profit organization Arizona Association of Athletes
who are visually impaired or blind (AAABVI).
After working with a
school for exceptional children in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, one of
her personal interests includes working with other cultures/schools to
assist them in securing medical and educational services for their
visually impaired populations.
Dr.
Irene Topor
Adjunct
Associate Professor
Department of Special Education, Rehabilitation and School
Psychology
P.O. Box 210069
Tucson, AZ 85721-0069
Telephone:
(520) 626-3863
Fax: (520) 621-3821
E-mail: ilt@u.arizona.edu
