Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBE Quarterly Volume 60(1)

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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; Lorem Ipsum Dolor Spring 2016 9 specialization and one of the objectives of Camp Abilities Alaska is for counselors to walk away with experience that will prepare them with the knowledge to adapt instruction for children with this low incidence disability. The following paragraphs portray one particular first-hand experience of a counselor who has continued to volunteer at Camp Abilities Alaska and other Camp Abilities programs for a number of years. My (third author) first experience as a counselor was in 2010 during the first year of Camp Abilities Connecticut when I was a High School junior. This camp followed a slightly different model (than Camp Abilities Alaska), giving me the opportunity to work with three children who had multiple disabilities including Autism Spectrum Disorder and Tourette's Syndrome, in addition to various forms of visual impairments. The tremendous improvement my kids made during this week really made me feel as if I had made an 100

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