Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBE-Q 65.3 Summer 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 3 assess the student's current cane skills (O&M CCR Standard 4 - Travel Techniques), but an experience book can be tailored to different standards and activities. Collecting items for the O&M experience book provided a hands-on experience for the student. The student sought out things he could find with his cane, placing each item in a basket his mother carried. After the walk, he created an experience book and shared it with the instructor during the next lesson. He filled the book with all the objects he found along with pictures he drew, which made the experience more meaningful to him. Kahoot! Using Kahoot!, an instructor can create lessons and quizzes that cover a variety of O&M topics. Quizzes can be taken by one student or a group of students working together. Kahoot! also tracks student progress and generates reports based on assignments given to the student(s). Kyrsten and Angel used Kahoot! to review key O&M concepts and mapping skills (O&M-S3-7A & 7B). For example, students identified the quadrants of Portland and familiar locations within each quadrant. For confidentiality purposes, students should create a nickname or use initials when taking quizzes. Kahoot! is not screen reader accessible, which limits its usefulness.

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