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ASU faculty and specialized courses related to teaching students who are blind or
have low vision are taught by educators employed through FBC who work with
students as faculty associates or adjunct instructors. Specialized courses include
Reading and Writing Braille, Diagnostic and Assessment: Procedures for the
Visually Impaired, and Orientation and Mobility for Teachers of the Visually
Impaired.
Students take ten three-credit courses that focus directly on special education
and teaching students who are blind or have low vision. That content, plus five
semesters of professional field experiences prepare students for their final capstone
experience of student teaching. Some professional field experiences take place at
FBC and within local school districts, providing experiences that prepare students
to teach in both self-contained and inclusive settings.
Upon graduation, students are able to demonstrate knowledge of physical
and virtual environmental factors that impact the acquisition of spatial and
positional concepts, access to and synthesis of data visualizations, and concepts
typically acquired through vision. Students will have the knowledge, and
dispositions to apply principles from assessment, evidence-based practices, high
leverage practices in special education, and the instructional cycle to create and
deliver specially designed instruction aligned to K-12 curriculum standards. They
will have the skills to analyze and interpret present level of performance
