Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBE-Q 65.1 Winter 2020

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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VIDBE-Q Volume 65 Issue 1 support members of the educational team to understand the implications of these reports on educational programming (Ferrell, et al, 2014). • Conduct comprehensive assessments using formal and informal assessment approaches and instruments, including the child-guided approach, person centered planning, functional behavior assessment (Rowland, Stillman & Mar, 2010). • Use coaching of adults to improve the quality of communication (Janssen, Riksen-Walraven, & van Dijk, 2003a; Janssen, Riksen-Walraven, & van Dijk, 2003b; Damen, Janssen, Schuengel, & Ruijssenaars, 2015). • Plan and implement communication interventions that are associated with the child-guided approach, including establishing trust, coactive movement routines, memory and writing strategies (Bruce & Borders, 2015; Ferrell, et al., 2014; Nelson & Bruce, 2019). • Plan and implement communication interventions that are associated with the systematic instruction approach, especially to expand vocabulary, rate of intentional communication and varied intents of communication (Ferrell, et al., 2014; Bruce,

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