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Description: Updated digital instruction is now available for both future O&M Specialists and those currently providing direct services to individuals with visual impairments. Attend this webinar and explore APH s newly revised product, Step-by-Step: A Guide to Mobility Techniques. This interactive computer curriculum provides demonstrations of how mobility skills are performed, visual observation skills used by professionals to spot common performance errors made by new learners who are blind, and methods for correcting errors most efficiently. Instructor: Dr. Sandra Rosen Instructor s Title: Professor, Coordinator of O&M Program Instructor s Affiliation: San Francisco State University Primary Core or ECC Area: Orientation & Mobility Target Audience: University faculty, O&M Specialists, Teachers of the Visually Impaired, Vision Rehabilitation Therapists Pre-requisite knowledge: None Lesson Plan Goal: Introduce Step-By-Step. Present the benefits of using the Step-by-Step curriculum in personnel preparation, skill review by direct service providers, and sharing with significant others who will assist in practicing selected skills with a traveler who is visually impaired. Demonstrate how to use the curriculum. Learning Objectives: Identify Instructional Video, Study Guide, and Review Guide components. Integrate curriculum into professional preparation of vision professionals and within existing programming for direct service professionals. Demonstrate use of materials with individuals who are not vision professionals but assist in practicing selected skills with a traveler who is visually impaired. (e.g., family members, friends, regular education and rehabilitation professionals, nursing home staff, assisted living staff, parks/recreation staff, and others). |
