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When John Kusku played goalball competitively for the first time, he got a bloody nose.

“I thought it was great,” said Kusku, who now plays on the men’s U.S. Goalball Team. “I wanted to keep playing.”

This past November, Kusku traveled to Ithaca, Michigan...

Parents know that students’ learning often goes beyond the classroom. To support the development of specific skills that are not taught in the classroom or require direct teaching, the Iowa Department of Education created a document called the...

Over the summer, MDE-LIO welcomed Michelle Woolf as Department Manager for Finance and Human Resources and Brenda Mahoney as Events Manager.

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Story by Kaitlin Shawgo, photos by Rory Goodine

When visiting a middle school on a summer morning, you might not expect to be greeted by two fourth-graders and an eighth-grader running a coffee stand.

But for five weeks this summer, those who...

Although the new school year has just begun, MDE-LIO would like to encourage districts to start thinking about submitting textbook requests for next school year.

When a district submits an early request, MDE-LIO staff has adequate time to produce the book and get...

Is your child in a summer reading slump? We’ve got you covered: Forty books have been added to our Unified English Braille (UEB) Literacy Expansion Program.

To order a book, view the inventory PDF on the...

As the school year ends, MDE-LIO encourages teachers to return unused American Printing House for the Blind (APH) products so they can be available for others to borrow. Due to the high value of APH products, we would like to remind teachers to properly package every...

If you order braille textbooks for students from MDE-LIO, you and your students might start noticing that the text and accompanying graphics are extra crisp.

MDE-LIO recently began using four new American Thermoform machines, which are used to reproduce braille...

MDE-LIO would like to welcome Amy Shepherd as a new Parent Liaison. She will work part-time with families and MDE-LIO consultants to create more collaborative opportunities to help support students who are Blind/Visually Impaired.

Amy received her bachelor’s...