L. Penny Rosenblum - Adjunct Associate Professor
 

Ph.D., University of Arizona

Teaching: Visual impairment, Braille, multiple disabilities

Dr. L. Penny Rosenblum is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Arizona in the Department of Special Education, Rehabilitation and School Psychology. Since 1999 she has prepared teachers of children with visual impairments through out the state of Arizona and also in Nevada. Dr. Rosenblum presents at conference in the United State and Canada. She has published in the Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness and RE:view in the areas of friendship development, nondriving, and personnel preparation. Dr. Rosenblum has produced the video Reclaiming Independence: Staying in the Driver’s Seat When You No Longer Drive with the American Printing House for the Blind. Along with Dr. Anne Corn, she co-authored Finding Wheels, a curriculum for youth with visual impairment to explore their options as nondrivers. Dr. Rosenblum has worked with Touch Graphics, a New York based company, in the development of the Talking Tactile Tablet’s Authoring Tool program. With colleagues at the Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and Blind she has developed the Ongoing Literacy for Families of Children with Visual Impairments web site and the Dots for Families braille literacy course.

Dr. Rosenblum received her bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education and Special Education in the area of Visual Impairment from Kutztown University in 1986, her master’s from George Peabody of Vanderbilt University in 1989 in Special Education and her doctorate from the University of Arizona in 1997 in Special Education, Rehabilitation and School Psychology. She worked as a teacher of visually impaired children in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Florida and Arizona. She has worked with children birth through age 22 of varying ability levels. Dr. Rosenblum worked as an Assistant Professor at Florida State University from 1997-1999.

Dr. Rosenblum is an avid bicyclist who enjoys living in Tucson with her husband Dennis. Please visit her Web site.