Visually Impaired High School Senior Aims to Become Teacher for Blind Students

Photo caption: Mickayla Biddle demonstrates how she uses assistive technology for visually impaired students like the BrailleNote Touch to do her schoolwork. Biddle hopes to use her experience to teach other blind students how to use these devices. Photo credit: Claudia Silva / El Paso Matters. Article by Claudia Silva. The 74 – July 3, 2023. Original article published in El Paso Matters.

The Texas senior just completed the Gadsden Independent School District’s Teacher Cadet program, which allowed her to gain some classroom experience.

Mickayla Biddle vaguely remembers being a kindergartener in a rambunctious class and thinking to herself that she wanted to be a “strict” teacher when she grew up. “I’m going to make those kids be quiet,” she would tell herself. Now at 17, the visually impaired graduating senior from Chaparral High School is preparing to become a teacher for other visually impaired students. […]

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