Millie has shared her experience and knowledge with families and teachers by writing numerous articles and through her books, Teaching Students with Visual and Multiple Impairments: A Resource Guide (1996), co-authored with Nancy Levack and published by TSVBI; and the Sensory Learning Kit (2005) and SAM: Symbols and Meaning (2012), both published and manufactured by APH. Millie authored the chapter titled, Sensory Efficiency, in ECC Essentials: Teaching the Expanded Core Curriculum to Students with Visual Impairments (2014) by AFB Press.

Millie has been honored and recognized by her peers as the 2000 co-recipient of the AER Bledsoe Award for Teaching Students with Visual and Multiple Impairments, the 2001 and 2013 recipient of the AER Division 3 Virginia Sowell Award, and is the 2007 and 2013 recipient of the APH Virgil Zickel Award.

When APH and Dr. Barraga began discussions to revise Dr. Barraga’s kit, Program to Develop Efficiency in Visual Functioning, Dr. Barraga requested that her former student, Millie Smith, be the lead author for the project.

Tristan Pierce
Project Leader