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Cartoon images of an O&M and student pointing in various directions. "Sara & Maya: Reinforcement Learning; cardinal directions."

ObjectiveEd: Cardinal Directions

Learn how ObjectiveEd games can reinforce and track student progress with O&M skills.
Apple Pay logo with text, "Shopping Made Easy!"

Apple Pay

How to make shopping easier and safer!
Screenshot of iPhone phone app displaying a numpad and text, "Numpad Layout"

Learning Numeric Keypad Layout: Activities

Touch typing should include the numeric keypad; does your student know and use the ten-key?
Satellite view of Pittsboro Historic Courthouse circle with text, "Map Lessons: Getting Started"

Pittsboro Map Lessons: Getting Started

New to non-visual digital maps? Use this simplified map to get started!
Cartoon drawing of buildings along a street with Points A & B and route arrow, with text, "Wayfinding App"

ObjectiveEd: Wayfinding App

Try this motivating app to teach orientation and mental mapping skills!
Image of 3 year old Victor with procane by large red cement Target ball and Victor college freshman sitting on campus.

Concept Development: Putting ORIENTATION back into O&M

Does your student have a full toolbox of ORIENTATION skills?
Photos of two students walking in a school hallway: 1 using a long cane & 1 using an AMD. "White Cane Day 2020"

White Cane Day 2020: Pete the Cat Video

Students celebrating White Cane Day, Pete the Cat style!
Kindergarten student walking on a sidewalk using a white cane and text, "White Cane Day!"

White Cane Day!

October 15 is White Cane Day - here is a poem that celebrates white canes!
Smiling 4 year old with precane bumped up to Red Cement Ball at Target. Text, "Own your Real Estate!"

Concept Development: Own Your Real Estate

Part 2 in an O&M concept development series.
Cartoon drawing of two homes, street, sidewalk and parked bicycle.

Whittier Falls Housing Development Map and "Circle" Concepts

Understanding the road name "circle" may actually represent various other shapes, such as a "U".
Image of 3 story red barn and text, "Farm Maps: High School"

Vermont Farm: Drawing Conclusions from an O&M Map

Learn about a Vermont farm using a non-visual digital map!
Image of Pittsboro's historic courthouse and text, "John's O&M lesson #6: Road Numbering Systems"

John's O&M Lesson 6: Road Numbering Systems

What do highway numbers mean?
Whiteboard drawing of cartoon O&M looking at the ObjectiveEd IEP clock analogy goal on her home computer.

ObjectiveEd: Hybrid O&M

How does a hybrid or distancing learning curriculum platform work for Orientation and Mobility?
Photo of Pittsboro courthouse and text, "John's O&M (and Social Studies!) Lesson #5"

John's O&M Lesson 5: 3 Types of Communities

Use a local map to learn about nearby urban, suburban, and rural communities
Screenshot of my maps.google.com with tabs: Owned, Not-owned and text, "Editing Maps"

Editing a Non-Visual Digital Map from the Map Library

How can I edit a map that I did not create?
photo of Pittsboro courthouse and text, "John's O&M Lesson #4"

John's O&M Lesson 4: Analyzing Map Data

How can maps be used to encourage critical thinking? This lesson can be taught remotely!
Text: "Non-visual digital map library - there's a map for that!" List of various types of maps with outline of North America.

Recorded! Map Library Webinar

Learn about this new and exciting Paths to Technology Resource Library!
Photo of Pittsboro Historic Courthouse and text, "John's O&M Lesson #2"

John's O&M Lesson 2: Learn about Streets

Using non-visual digital maps to teach street concepts to an elementary student.
The ECC Orientation and Mobility: A Student's Perspective

Orientation and Mobility: A Student's Perspective

What does Emma think about the ECC area of O&M?
Image of Pittsboro's Historic courthouse with text, " John's O&M Lesson #1"

John's O&M Lesson 1: Non-Visual Digital Maps for Elementary Student

How to introduce non-visual digital maps to an elementary student and the first in a progressive series of orientation lessons.

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