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The Fine Artist Who Became a SPED Director (And What He Missed) - Vincent Valerio

The Fine Artist Who Became a SPED Director (And What He Missed) - Vincent Valerio

Brighter Together
25 min
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Vincent Valerio's unconventional journey from fine artist to special education director reveals that expertise in serving children with disabilities flourishes in diverse backgrounds and real-world experience. At Portage County Board of Developmental Disabilities in Ohio, Vincent has built a county-wide collaboration model that provides free training, adaptive equipment, and transition programming to 11 public school districts—a level of integration that most county boards don't attempt. Discover how county-level flexibility and listening to community needs creates sustainable solutions that traditional educational credentials alone cannot.