Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBE-Q 66.1 Winter 2021

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 66 Issue 1 Rubella Syndrome (Chess, 1977), Cortical/ Cerebral Visual Impairment (Lueck & Dutton, 2015), and Retinopathy of Prematurity (Jure et al., 2016). There is evidence of effective interventions to support self-regulation in children who are blind and visually impaired with additional disabilities, including deafblindness (Nelson et al., 2016; Nelson et al., 2017). In this active learning session, we will describe a transdisciplinary and inclusive approach to self-regulation for students who are blind or visually impaired, including those who have additional disabilities including autism, intellectual disabilities, attention deficit disorders, and deafblindness. We will share a variety of movement and sensory-based activities to develop students' awareness and management of their own emotions and attentional levels. These activities include children's yoga (Gillen & Gillen, 2017; Hagood, 2008), meditation, mantras (Roberts, 2008; Khalsa, 2019), and creative movement / dance (Nelson et al., 2017). We will suggest ways to include literacy instruction in self- regulation activities, such as use of tactile symbol activity sequences, writing and enacting yoga stories, building personal emotion meters, co-creating personal mantras, songs, and drama. The activities presented are appropriate for a wide range of student ages and skill levels. We will encourage teams to work together by incorporating input from many disciplines, including speech language

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