This study investigated changes in teachers’ and parents’ understanding and implementation of or philosophy on the implementation of the content areas of the expanded core curriculum for students who are visually impaired. The results demonstrated some changes since the original survey results were reported in 1998 and a discrepancy between the perceptions of parents and teachers of teachers’ level of knowledge of the expanded core curriculum.
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