"O&M Programs" is made up of 3 modules, each containing video segments, readings, lectures, and assigned activities to enhance and apply your learning. Plan to spend 1 week working through each module. While this is a self-paced course, the material will have the most impact if you work steadily through the outline in the order it is presented.
This tutorial uses the text Keys to Educational Success: Teaching Students with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities, which is available from AFB Press.
Orientation and Mobility Programs (Keys 9)
"O&M Programs" is made up of 3 modules, each containing video segments, readings, lectures, and assigned activities to enhance and apply your learning. Plan to spend 1 week working through each module. While this is a self-paced course, the material will have the most impact if you work steadily through the outline in the order it is presented.
This tutorial uses the text Keys to Educational Success: Teaching Students with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities, which is available from AFB Press.
Learning Goals and Objectives
Session I provides an overview of the impact of visual and multiple disabilities on the development of O&M skills. This session also reviews the roles and responsibilities of O&M specialists who work with students who are visually and multiply impaired, as well as the roles of all other team members, including family.
Objectives:
- Define the terms orientation and mobility
- Describe the components of the traditional O&M curriculum
- Describe the effects of visual impairments on early motor development
- Identify possible effects on development of O&M skills when disabilities in addition to vision loss are present
- Describe the roles and responsibilities of O&M specialists when working with students who have visual and multiple disabilities
- Describe strategies for promoting O&M for students who have visual and multiple disabilities
Session II discusses the features of orientation and mobility assessment and instruction for students who have visual and multiple disabilities
Objectives:
- Describe the role of educational team members other than the O&M specialist who may be involved in O&M assessment
- Describe how collaboration among team members and the O&M specialist enhances assessment
- Describe the goals of an O&M program for students with visual and multiple disabilities
- Describe strategies to support positive behaviors for O&M instruction
- Describe strategies and suggestions for working with students who have behavioral challenges
- Identify the various travel methods employed by people with visual and multiple disabilities
- List commonly used human guide adaptations for individuals with visual and multiple disabilities
- List commonly used adaptations to the long cane for individuals with visual and multiple disabilities
- Identify dog guide schools that serve individuals with visual and multiple disabilities
- Describe adapted mobility devices (AMDs)
- Describe Electronic Travel Aids (ETAs)
- List and describe ambulatory aids for individuals with visual and multiple disabilities
- List and describe orientation devices for individuals with visual and multiple disabilities
- Describe functional, practical, and safety and instructional considerations for individuals with visual and multiple disabilities
- Describe strategies and suggestions for encouraging O&M for students who use AAC (augmentative and alternative communication devices
Readings
Sacks and Zatta, Eds. Keys to Educational Success: Teaching Students with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities, AFB Press.
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