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mock interviews, ordered food, and simulated paying the bill in
restaurants. This opportunity to manage "real life" experiences was
a critical component of the expanded core curriculum.
We interacted with specialists for reading, math, science,
social studies, braille, and orientation & mobility. The latter is taken
very seriously at FSDB and the students look forward to working
with the specialist. We learned that orientation is the idea that
students know where they are, where they are going, and how they
are going to get there; mobility is students knowing how they are
going to move from one place to another. We took students to the
grocery store and observed a student crossing the street for the
very first time. Seeing the way the specialist interacted with her and
worked with her strengths was amazing and helped us truly
appreciate the important work that mobility specialists do. On
another occasion, a kindergarten student gave us a tour of the
campus. A five year old gave us perspective on the methods he
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