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Course Characteristics
Instructor.
The course instructor had to be dually certified in TVI and O&M (n=11),
O&M certified (n=9), co-taught by a TVI and O&M specialist (n=2) or not sure
(n=6).
Specific Areas of O&M Instruction Covered
Respondents were asked to indicate if they covered any of the ten
general areas of O&M instruction. One respondent indicated the course
taught none of the ten O&M areas listed, and wrote, "I am unsure of what we
are talking about here!
we explain devices but we do not teach these
beginning students how to use them."
One respondent who indicated that specific skills in all ten O&M general
areas were covered by the course wrote, "!this is
not a course that is
designed to have TVIs teach O&M, but to be familiar with O&M so that TVIs
can support the COMS with follow-up and make referrals to O&M..."
Ten General O&M Areas
Twenty-eight respondents completed this section of the survey. When a
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