Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBE-Q 65.2 Spring Convention Issue-Portland 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 2 74 Jennifer L. Cmar, Ph.D., COMS, jcmar@colled.msstate.edu, Michele C. McDonnall, Ph.D., CRC The National Research and Training Center on Blindness and Low Vision Mississippi State University Helping students prepare to transition from school to the workplace is a key focus of teachers of students with visual impairments. Research has been conducted to identify factors associated with success after high school, and one factor consistently found to predict post-high school employment is early work experiences (Mazzotti et al., 2016; McDonnall, 2010, 2011; McDonnall & Crudden, 2009; Test et al., 2009; Wehman et al., 2015). Additional research has documented that the type of work experience matters; in other words, not all work experiences may have equal positive impacts on future employment. A study of work experience programs indicated that results are mixed for the effectiveness of these programs for youth with barriers to employment and that all programs with A Curriculum for Teaching Job Search Skills to Youth with Visual Impairments

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