Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBE-Q 64.2 Spring 2019

A quarterly newsletter from the Council for Exceptional Children's Division on Visual Impairments containing practitioner tips for Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments, Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and other professionals.

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27 VIDBE-Q Volume 64 Issue 2 insurmountable. Supporting the student during this life stage may cause your lesson plan to change to meet his/her needs in the moment. Having purposeful lessons, such as taking the bus to the movie theater for an upcoming date, may help mitigate some of the social-emotional effects of nondriving for youth with visual impairments as they work through the grief cycle. Moving Forward We challenged our attendees and now you, the reader, to consider and potentially answer the following questions: 1. What are the most important parts of O&M instruction leading up to age 16? 2. What are the most important parts of O&M instruction after age 16? 3. If you had all the time in the world with your student, what would you include beyond street crossings, route planning, and transit options in O&M instruction? 4. What do we need, as a field, to ensure that nondriving students keep moving forward?

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