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community alongside typical peers/employees.
The program is truly collaborative. Along with OSSB, OOD/BSVI and
Functional Training Services, Inc., and The OSU O&M program, The OSU
graduate students from the TVI program intern for a few weeks during the
summer program, teaching technology lessons, helping with living skills or
social skills or wherever they are needed. On Fridays, BSVI provides guests
for discussion panels on any topics the participants want to discuss
including, appropriate work conversation, travel in the community, dating,
how to dress, living independently, etc.
The outcomes from the program have been mostly positive. Many of
the participants are employed or actively seeking employment with their
BSVI counselors or attending college or other post-secondary programs.
Most have gained self-confidence, social skills and have improved their
technology skills and skills of daily living.
For more information on the Summer Work and Learn Program, please
contact Ann Pilewskie, Transition Coordinator at OSSB.
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