Teaching Social Skills to Students Who Are Visually Impaired

Learners will be introduced to assessment and instructional strategies for teaching social skills to students with visual impairments.

Starts on TBD and runs for 8 weeks.

This course provides a strong rationale for teaching social skills to students with visual impairments by examining the differences in social development. Learners will be introduced to assessment and instructional strategies for teaching social skills to students with visual impairments including students who have visual impairments and additional disabilities.

Required Text

Sacks, S.Z. & Wolffe, K.E., (2006). Teaching social skills to students with visual impairments: From Theory to Practice. Published by AFB Press.
List price: $49.95 Paperback, $30.00 online, $34.95 electronic text. To order this book, please contact Sarah Bush - American Printing House for the Blind at (502)899-2306, or sbush@aph.org

CREDIT TYPES	EARLY BIRD PRICE	REGULAR PRICE
Graduate Credits	$670.00	$695.00
PDPs, CEs, ACVREP, CTLEs, ASHA	$375.00	$399.00

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this class, participant will be able to:

Identify strategies for teaching social skills to students with visual impairments.
Identify types of social skills interventions and strategies to promote friendships.
Describe the importance of teaching social skills and the obstacles face by students with visual impairments.
Describe the role of the teacher and the family in teaching social skills.
Identify why assessment is essential and describe the different types of social skills assessments.
Describe the differences in social development for children & adolescents with visual impairments.

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Contact Perkins eLearning at perkins.elearning@Perkins.org for any questions.

Meet the presenters:

Sharon Z. Sacks, Ph.D.

Disclosure

Sharon Sacks has been paid by Perkins to develop this course and is also paid to be the instructor.

She has no non-financial relationships to disclose.

This workshop is offered for 3.7 ASHA CEUs (Introductory Level, Professional area).

Perkins School for the Blind is approved by the Continuing Education board of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) to provide continuing education activities in speech-language pathology and audiology. See the course information for number of ASHA CEUs, instructional level, and content area. ASHA CE Provider approval does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedures.