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mobility; vocational skills and career education; self-determination; and
leisure/recreation
g. Impact and implications of visual impairment on attachment, early social
and communication development, early literacy, early orientation and
mobility, and nonvisual strategies for facilitating attachment, early
communication, and social development
h. Impact and implications of sociocultural/psychosocial factors, such as
motivation, fear, anxiety, self-concept, self-efficacy, and attitudes unique
to blindness, across ages and settings, on acquisition of orientation and
mobility skills, and social interactions that impact education and
rehabilitation
SKILLS
a. Accurately read, interpret, and summarize eye reports and serve as
liaison to families and other members of the educational team to
individualize services
b. Select and develop assessment/evaluation and teaching strategies,
accommodations and modifications that address age, visual
impairment, family values and priorities, visual prognosis, and other
individual characteristics
c. Use nonvisual/alternate strategies to promote attachment, early
communication, and independence to address the effects of visual
impairment on families and the reciprocal impact on individuals' self-
esteem
d. Select, adapt, and use nonvisual/alternate instructional strategies to
address co-occurring disabilities and other individual characteristics
e. Adapt human guide techniques including basic guide position and grip,
transferring sides, narrow passageways, reversing directions,
doorways, stairways, and seating based on individual characteristics
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