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to what we recognize as components of a quality functional vision, the FVLMA
goes beyond with guidance and forms for interviews, observations and LMA data
collection. Additionally, the kit provides screening tools for the TVI to use for
O&M and the ECC – all 9 areas including AT. The FVLMA even has in its
Appendices, a decision-making guide for your LMA and a convenient list of
required materials to have in preparation for your assessments, which is a
convenient segue to our next APH Product.
NewT: New Tools to Accompany the Functional Vision and Learning Media
Assessment (FVLMA) for Students Who are Pre-Academic or Academic and
Visually Impaired in Grades K-12 (catalog #1-08149-00)
Released in 2016, the NewT has everything you need to complete the
observations, function vision assessment, and learning media assessment sections
found in APH's FVLMA in this one complete kit. Nigel Newt's Portfolios provide
sample graphs, maps, dictionary entries, reading samples, diagrams, news
clippings and catalogue pages for grade levels K-12. As a TVI/O&M for many
years, I was tasked with creating/collecting many of my own materials to perform
quality assessments. In some positions, where I worked with a team of teachers, we
would use our collective efforts, time and money to put together materials for the
variety of students we serve. The NewT was developed in collaboration with the
developers of the FVLMA for vision professionals to meet these exact needs for
