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within a local school district, and at a summer sports camp. In addition, they
complete a lengthy practicum experience with students with visual and
multiple disabilities, and an internship at one of a variety of direct service
settings across the country (or two internships, if they select to also specialize
in O&M).
The faculty at FSU tries very hard to create a warm, supportive, "family"
atmosphere in which students are inspired to provide excellent services to
students who are blind or who have low vision. We focus on making sure that
our students have the skills to support the diversity of students whom they will
be assigned when working in the country's local schools and that uppermost
in their minds is facilitating the growth to optimum independence for all of
their students, which usually involves providing instruction in sensory
functioning, social skills, career education, O&M, independent living,
recreation and leisure, and assistive technology, as well as the compensatory
skills that students need to access instruction in the general or special
education classrooms in which they might be placed. FSU students complete
their coursework in cohorts, all faculty offices are located in a suite with tables
set up for group work, and students maintain a very active student chapter of
Florida Association for the Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and
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