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Mentor Centers are scheduled three times every school year. During a Mentor Center protégés and their mentors will spend two days observing select TVIs and COMS as they work with students. Participants choose from 33 available observation sites. They are also given a choice of attending concurrent mini-sessions on topics related to students with a visual impairment. Participants may also choose to go on a guided tour of the Criss Cole Rehabilitation Center (VI adult), or to attend a presentation by the DARS-DBS Children's Program and the TSBVI/Criss Cole Post-Secondary Program. Classrooms featured at TSBVI for observation purposes include topics such as: - Tactile communication materials and methods
- Adapted PE and music
- Active learning techniques and materials
- Adaptations for social studies, science, algebra, and reading
- Technology
- Daily living skills in the school's dorms
- Routines for VI students with additional cognitive impairments
- Orientation and mobility lessons on TSBVI campus
- Orientation and mobility lessons in the Austin community
- Using public transportation (O&M)
- Using optical devices in the community (O&M)
- Wheelchair travel (O&M)
- Positive Behavior Support (PBS) techniques
- Occupational therapy sessions
- EXIT program (Experiences in Transition)
- Post-Secondary program (collaborative efforts between Criss Cole Rehab. Center and TSBVI)
Itinerant teachers (TVI and COMS) in the Austin ISD are also available for observations. Typical vision-related lessons include: - Using optical devices in general classroom settings
- Braille and pre-braille literacy instruction
- Abacus instruction
- Computer use/keyboarding
- Pre-cane
- Route travel
- Small business travel
- Pe
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