Acknowledgements
OSPIOriginal funding (1998-99) was provided through a combined state and federal (Technology Literacy Challenge Fund) grant awarded by the Learning Technologies Department at the Office of Superintendent for Public Instruction (OSPI), our state's educational agency.
Continued funding (2000-2001) was provided by Puget Sound ESD, OSPI (Special Education), and private contributions. We thank Dr. Doug Gill, Director of Special Education at OSPI, and Don Hanson, OSPI's liaison with Washington Sensory Disabilities Services, for their commitment to this project in Washington State.
We are currently pursuing additional funding resources to continue the SRVOP project into the future.
Gallaudet University (Clerc Center)
The Clerc Center at Gallaudet University has been a partner in SRVOP and contributed the following during the startup year:
--family and classroom book bags
--evaluation consultations
We wish to thank the many people of Puget Sound ESD, for their unwavering support of this statewide project.
SRVOP would not be possible without the involvement, technical support, and enthusiasm provided now, and over the years, by:
Dr. Terry Lindquist
John Reeg
Scott Beebe
Terry Hippenhammer
John Cohen
Conn McQuinn
Pat McNair
and others...
WEYERHAEUSER FAMILY FOUNDATION
Many thanks to the Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation for a three-year grant to enhance outreach by development of curriculum resources and VHS videos to accompany our SRVOP children's books. Year One (2002) funding allowed us to develop eighteen Reading Resource Packets (one for each children's book in our series) and begin production of VHS videos to accompany our books!