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At Blindness Education and Advocacy Resources LLC (BEAR), we support parents, attorneys and advocates, education professionals, and rehabilitation agencies. We assist with the development activities to provide students with disabilities (including blindness, low vision, and additional disabilities) and help provide access to information and appropriate instruction. We offer professional development, instructional coaching, and mentoring for educators and rehabilitation service providers serving students with visual impairment, including blindness. Additionally, we provide blindness-specific educational resources and services, including comprehensive assessments, independent educational evaluations, and IEP planning and advocacy, and we can deliver in-person and virtual instruction in the areas of self-advocacy, education and career counseling, social and independent living skills, and.

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Insight Psychological Services Evaluations & Consultation Laura Lopach, Ph.D. Dr. Lopach is a licensed psychologist with over 15 years of experience supporting neurodivergent individuals and their families. Her career began in residential settings, working with autistic adults with intellectual disabilities and adolescents with significant trauma history. She later worked as a school psychologist in Utah and Montana, serving on a district autism team and leading autism assessments for a large urban school district. Dr. Lopach has overseen operations of a nonprofit behavioral program focused on teaching children functional life skills. She has extensive experience in multidisciplinary evaluations and specialized hospital clinic settings. Dr. Lopach has been a member of Community Medical Center’s Pediatric Specialty Clinic evaluation team since 2019. Dr. Lopach is committed to a.

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