Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBEQ.61.2.Spring.2016

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 4 Philosophy in Vision Science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in December 2015. The Dissertation of the Year Award is presented to a DVIDB member who makes a significant contribution to the field through extensive study and research. Dr. Bowman's dissertation, "Transferring virtual reality training to real world settings in individuals with low vision and dual-sensory impairments" determined if individuals with severely impaired vision could learn useful road safety skills in Virtual Reality (VR) and could transfer these skills to real streets. To achieve this goal, one set of O&M skills, using the near lane parallel traffic surge to decide the best timing for crossing a signal controlled street, was selected to study. Twelve participants with low vision were recruited for the study and randomly assigned to learn the O&M still in either a VR street environment or a real street environment. Both groups showed a significant increase in their safety score after training. A repeated 17

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