CVRT®, Communications Instructor

As a Certified Vision Rehabilitation Therapist (CVRT®) by the Academy for Certification of Vision Rehabilitation and Education Professionals (ACVREP), Katrina (Kathy) Anderson is a Communications Instructor at Bosma Rehabilitation Center. Her main job function is to teach clients alternative methods for communication (e.g. Braille, touch typing, use of magnification aids, tape recording, handwriting, etc.), and she occasionally teaches personal management skills. Collecting and sharing resources that are of interest to individuals who are blind or visually impaired also keeps Katrina quite busy.

Katrina offers a special insight to her clients who are learning to function with a visual impairment. After spending a majority of her life with partial vision, she became totally blind in 1994.

Education
Ball State University, B.S., Special Education
Western Michigan University, M.S., Rehabilitation Teaching

Experience
Katrina has been working with the Bosma Rehabilitation Center for 16 years, and teaching for a total of 20. Prior to coming to Bosma she worked for Goodwill Industries in Dayton, Oh as an Itinerant Rehabilitation Teacher.

Affiliations
Association for Education and Rehabilitation for the Blind and Visually Impaired (AER), American Council of the Blind (ACB)

Her hobbies include reading, surfing the Internet, cooking and collecting recipes, bowling, long walks with Sally, her Leader Dog, and traveling. Katrina was active in sports for several years - competing in track & field, cheerleading, goalball, and more - participating in national and international competitions.