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VIISA is a SKI-HI focused course featuring evidence based practices for serving infants and toddlers with visual impairments/blindness with our without additional disabilities. The purpose of this course is for participants to gain and develop skills in understanding the unique needs of infants and toddlers who are blind or visually impaired in a home-based setting. The focus will be on working with these children, as well as in collaboration with the family and other members of the early intervention team. Transitioning from a home setting to preschool will also be addressed. Participants will gain knowledge and skills in observation, assessment, intervention techniques, use of appropriate methods, curricula and materials in teaching skills in all developmental domains, developing the use of all senses, meeting the child s needs in the group setting, socialization, early literacy and orientation and mobility. |
