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The 2022 Colorado Department of Education Orientation and Mobility Seminar will cover the following key topics and content across four webinar sessions: Culturally Responsive O&M Career, College and Community Readiness Standards (O&M CCCRS) in Practice: This session articulates the need for standards-based instruction in a 21st century educational system, in which the field of O&M has not kept up, until now. Standards will be reviewed for their content and use. O&M Risk Assessment, Safety Supervision and Liability (RASSL): This session presents the results of a Liability in Telepractice Workgroup Report and associated research into the need for a risk assessment process in the field of O&M . A comprehensive and practical process (Risk Assessment Matrix) guides an instructor s thinking and choices regarding safety supervision and instructional practices. High and low-risk factors in environment, learner characteristics, levels of safety supervision, scope of practice and IEP integrity help to clarify and subsequently decrease the potential risk of injury and, therefore, potential claims of instructor negligence. Determining Instructional Minutes, a research-based range that aligns with the O&M CCCRS: A review of research that provides O&M instructors an alternative approach to determining an appropriate level of instruction (amount and frequency) for progress toward the O&M CCCR Standards age/grade level performance targets (skill sets) and corrects misconceptions regarding the IEP team s role in the determination of instructional minutes. Using the Internet to Your Advantage as a COMS. The session will review how Orientation and Mobility Specialists can take advantage of resources they have at their fingertips! The session will review ways to use social media websites to gather information, and also use google programs to stay organized and keep on top of clients and case notes |
