SPEVI News
SPEVI 2025 Conference video recordings available now
The recordings of the 2025 SPEVI Conference are now available for public viewing at no cost. The recordings have been added to the invaluable Open Access Online SPEVI Conference Paper Repository, on the dedicated webpage on this website.
The online repository offers the opportunity to relive or access the video recordings of the keynote presentations by Dr Chantelle Griffiths, Michael Sheppard, and Ben Clare, and the other fabulous presentations, panel discussions and workshops.
SPEVI Communities of Practice (CoP's)
Next meeting SPEVI Deafblind Educators Community of Practice: Tuesday 24 March 2026
Topic and presenter to be confirmed.
You are required to register to receive the Zoom meeting link.
For all details and more information about this session, please visit the DBE CoP webpage.
Next meeting SPEVI Early Intervention VI Community of Practice: Thursday 26 March 2026
Topic: National Best Practice Framework for Early Childhood Intervention.
In this session, facilitated by Tricia Izzard (Early Childhood Specialist Teacher, Vision Australia Children and Young People Team), we will explore the newly released National Best Practice Framework for Early Childhood Intervention in Australia, now approved for publication by the Commonwealth Government.
You are required to register to receive the Zoom meeting link. For more information on this and upcoming meetings of this CoP and to register in advance (required) please visit the EIVI COP webpage.
Next Meeting SPEVI CoP for Parents and Carers of children/young people with blindness and low vision
Date in 2026: TBC.
Visit the Parents CoP webpage for more information.
Out now: Volume 17, Number 1, 2025 of the Journal of the South Pacific Educators in Vision Impairment
Includes articles by leading educators and researchers.
All Issues of the JSPEVI Journal are available for free.
Review and download Issues of the JSPEVI Journal here
With great thanks to all contributors, Chief Editor Dr Bronwen Scott and the JSPEVI Editorial Committee.
SPEVI members benefit: discounted Professional Development events
SPEVI is proud to announce our continuing partnership for 2024 with NextSense
Continuing Professional Education (CPE) events and Statewide Vision Resource Centre (SVRC, Victoria) professional learning (PL) events. This means that like the previous years, current SPEVI members can register for these PD events with a considerable discounted fee. If you are not a current member of SPEVI Inc., please join now and enjoy this members benefit in the New Year. With thanks to NextSense and SVRC for supporting SPEVI’s aim of encouraging the highest standards in the educators of persons with vision impairment by promoting research and professional training for general and specialist teachers.
SPEVI is proud to announce our continuing partnership for 2024 with NextSense
Member discounts for NextSense Continuing Professional Education
SPEVI Inc (Australia) continues to offer member discounts for NextSense Institute's Continuing Professional Education (CPE) events in 2024. Each SPEVI Inc. member is entitled to five discount event registrations for NextSense.
Members can register by visiting the NextSense Professional Development website
We recommend you to book early, as the SPEVI Inc. Committee of Management has set an upper limit of funds for the discount event registrations.
Please contact Trudy Smith, Manager of NextSense Institute CPE program, if you have any questions – trudy.smith@nextsense.org.au.
Member discounts for SVRC’s professional learning (PL) events
SPEVI Inc. (Australia) and Statewide Vision Resource Centre (SVRC, Victoria) are again partnering to offer SPEVI Inc members a 50% discount on the registration costs of five of the ten SVRC’s professional learning (PL) events .
This offer is for members of SPEVI Inc. only, and is limited to 5 events per member per year. For details about the events, please review the SVRC Professional Learning calendar on the SVRC website - Upcoming Events — Statewide Vision Resource Centre (svrc.vic.edu.au)
SVRC uses Eventbrite for their professional learning registrations.
If you are a current SPEVI Inc. member and want to benefit from this offer, please contact the SPEVI Secretary to request a promo code to register at the 50% reduced fee through Eventbrite.
If you have any queries regarding the registration process or the SVRC events, please email svrc@education.vic.gov.au
The South Pacific Educators in Vision Impairment (SPEVI Inc) is the peak professional association for educators of students with vision impairments in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific region. SPEVI is the peak professional body to advocate for excellence and equity in education for students with blindness and low vision, including deafblindness and multiple disabilities.
SPEVI membership is open to professionals and parents/caregivers supporting children and adults with vision impairment, including general teachers and specialist teachers (vision impairment), allied health professionals, orientation mobility specialists and assistive technology consultants.
SPEVI is a dynamic organisation, actively working for its members. It is registered as an incorporated organisation in Australia (Registration Number INC9889733) and New Zealand.