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Braille Literacy Project Leader
E-mail: lmason@aph.org
After completing an internship with the research department in 2006, Loana returned to APH in 2009 as a Braille Literacy Project Leader. Her professional goal is to develop collaborative relationships with consumers, parents, and professionals in order to update and develop braille products that are aligned with best practices. Loana’s initial projects will focus on the production of materials that facilitate braille literacy for adventitiously blinded individuals as well as sighted people who want to learn the braille code. She invites anyone interested in these topics to contact her.
Loana has over three decades of personal and professional experience with blindness and visual impairment. After receiving her B.A. in psychology and sociology from Adams State College in 1994, Loana went on to obtain her M.A. in special education: visual impairment with additional certification in orientation and mobility from the University of Northern Colorado in 1996. She then taught students with visual impairments in both residential and public schools. While Loana has taught all areas of the Expanded Core Curriculum, she developed a passion for braille literacy, especially for students with multiple disabilities. The desire to be a better advocate led her to enroll in the doctoral program at the University of Northern Colorado in 2003 where she is currently working on completing her dissertation. Since 2004, Loana has taught at the university level preparing prospective teachers of students with visual impairments. She also has served on the Executive Board of the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division on Visual Impairments and will be its President from 2010-2012. Loana has also attained National Certification in Literary Braille and is working toward national certification as a braille transcriber. All of these experiences will help her develop products that facilitate the teaching and learning of braille.
