Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBE-Q 66.4 FALL 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 4 or doing drivers training activities together for a teen beginning with their permit. Whatever encourages them to begin practicing their skills in the community is creating benefits that pay dividends through their entire lives. While you are walking, the cane is extended in front of you and sweeps back and forth in an arc pattern, like radar on the ground. As described in the next section, if you solicit instruction from your child (or your child's Orientation and Mobility Specialist) you may also inspire them to demonstrate their own mastery. 3. Are there places for me to practice non-visual or low vision skills? You can reach out to your child's Orientation and Mobility Specialist and or your child's Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments (TSVI) to see if they are willing to have you practice some skills under blindfold or a low vision simulator. If this is not an option, you can try certain activities in the home or outdoors with the help of another person to monitor your safety as you learn. Here are some examples of simple activities to try. The activities will help you understand the adaptive strategies involved that can help them be successfully accomplished. Remember that this is all about fun learning; it is a new way of doing things, and like doing any new thing, they will likely take some practice. Learning through experience is a most excellent way to learn! If you are comfortable having your son or daughter show you how they go about doing things, this can be a terrific

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