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About VISIONS
This program, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), provides Parent Training and Information (PTI) services to Native American families across the country.

VISIONS helps to ensure that Native American families of children with the full range of disabilities have the training and information they need to prepare their children for not only school, but to be able to lead productive, independent lives to the fullest extent possible.

VISIONS offers free help, information, and training to Native American families of students with disabilities and the professionals that serve them across the country. Our main focus is on the educational needs of students with disabilities.
We believe informed parents are a child’s best advocate, and that parents and professionals working together provide the best resources for our children.

About the Director: LaDonna Kirkaldie

As an Assiniboine/Santee Sioux/Turtle Mountain Chippewa and Cree, enrolled on the Fort Belknap reservation in Montana, LaDonna has extensive knowledge and experience on providing training on resources, disability laws, and community development in Indian Country as well as working with tribal/state/federal agencies in intersecting culture and disability. She has over 20 years of experience working in the disability arena in various aspects from Director of the American Indian Disability Technical Assistance Center, Research Associate and Principal Investigator for American Indian Disability Legislation Project and American Indian Choices Project, Counselor for Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Tribal Vocational Rehabilitation Program, and Coordinator for Disability Support Services at Salish Kootenai College to name a few. As the mother of a young man with disabilities, she has had to help her son navigate the school systems and advocate on behalf of him as well as other Native American children with disabilities in the school systems. She has a daughter who is presently attending Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, KS and one granddaughter she is very proud of. LaDonna was also named by ACCESS Living in Chicago as one of the 20 Disability Leaders of the Past 20 years.