Annual Registration of Students with Visual Impairments (aka, VI Registration)

The TSBVI Outreach Program conducts the Annual Registration of Students Who Are Visually Impaired for the TEA though a contract with Region XI Education Service Center. This VI Registration is used as a data source to generate Federal Quota funds, to help Regional Education Service Centers and other state agencies analyze trends and plan services as well as serving as a basis for students to qualify for adapted textbooks.

If you have questions about the Annual Registration of Students Who Are Visually Impaired contact:

Jim Durkel
(512) 206-9270
email: JimDurkel@tsbvi.edu

VI Annual Registration Online -

The six digit county district number is your user name. Use the numerals only, don't include the hyphen. Your password is the 8 character string sent to the Special Ed Director.

New or deserving of special attention this year

Paper copies of the list of students will only be sent upon request. You are being asked to use the electronic registration procedure as much as possible. You may generate a paper copy of your district’s students after logging in to the on-line system.
Deadline for completion is January 29, 2010.

Items requiring particular attention

Part C students (students under 3 years old) receiving services from the teacher of students with visual impairments in your district should be included on this registration.
Students who are deafblind should be included on this registration.
Students with multiple disabilities that include a visual impairment should be included on this registration.
Please carefully check the grade level of students who were previously coded as IP (infant parent) or PS (preschool). Those grade levels do not automatically change.
Please use the Federal definition of assistive technology (AT) when answering the question about AT. The definition is quite liberal and you will most likely find that almost all students with visual impairments are using some kind of AT under this definition.

IDEA 2004 Section 300.5 "The term 'assistive technology device' means any item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of a child with a disability."

Change to an information field

The field “Expired Eye Report” is now named “Current Eye Report”. In the past, an answer of “yes” indicated that the eye report was expired and not current. Now, an answer of “yes” indicates that the eye report is current, which means it was done within the last 3 years or the ARD committee has accepted an older eye report as current.

A new information field

There is a new information field called “”Primary Language of Learner”. This field is to gather information about child's primary spoken language at school (or at home if the child is under 3 years of age). If the child uses any speech, even one or two words, then choose "English", "Spanish", or "Other". This is not what language(s) the child understands; this is the primary language the child actually uses when he or she speaks. Use NA if the child does not speak either because of age or ability level.

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Last Revision: December 17, 2009