Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBEQ.68.4.Fall.2023

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 68 Issue 4 71 Progress Monitoring Students graph their cold/hot scores in blue and red on a paper graph provided by Read Naturally Teachers provide individualized accommodations for progress monitoring based on visual needs, including a range of adapted graphing options (e.g. paper, digital, manipulatives) Lusk, Lawson, and McCarthy (2013) stated that Learning Media Assessments should be used to inform assessment and instruction. Teacher calculates WCPM for hot timing using one minute timeframe Allow students to read the entire passage and record time Measure mean correct words per minute across passage (CWPMP) rather than one minute timing Kamei-Hannan and Ricci (2015) passage formula "Students with low vision need more time than students with typical sight to complete tasks at a word level and when reading longer sentences of paragraphs." (p. 31) Students pass the story when their WCPM score improves by 30 WCPM. Use alternate, individualized measures of progress to determine passage of story, such as a percentage improvement from baseline Percentage improvement inspired by Layton and Koenig's (1998) description of decision making process for selecting criteria based on percentage improvement from baseline for phases in their changing criterion design. They used a percentage improvement from baseline, but were willing to alter it based on conversations with students to address motivational needs. As noted in Alberto and Troutman (2006) and Klein et al. (2015), criteria for phase changes should be chosen based on one of four ways: 1. mean of baseline 2. halving the mean of baseline 3. using high and low points to set a range 4. using an estimate from a professional acquainted with the student and the subject matter

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