Instruction in orientation and mobility, one of the Expanded Core Curriculum areas, helps students know where they are in relation to people and things in the environment, how to get where they want to go and how to get there safely by walking or using a wheelchair or using transportation.
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Index
What is a Bioptic? What is My Role as a COMS?
Building Spatial Skills through Video Game Play
Using the 2013 Michigan Severity Scale for O&M
Caseload Point System
Original webcast date: 5/8/2018
Description: Current caseload point systems from around the country will be discussed in relation to finding a point system that represents students’ functional needs and the workload of COMS’s and TVI’s. These concepts for caseload point systems will then be applied to administrative action triggers to allow for naturally occurring staff level changes based on student enrollment rather than having to rely on direct and often time consumer advocacy of the COMS, TVI, parent, or other blindness/vision professional. Specific suggestions for creating a caseload point system that represents a district’s or region’s unique set of variables will be addressed.
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What's a Bioptic? How can COMS support potential drivers?
Original webcast date: 10/4/2017
Description: “Can I be a driver?” is an emotion packed question for a teenager who has low vision. As part of travel skills, a COMS is likely to hear this question asked by a student or curious adults. What is the COMS role in regards to pre-driver training, use of the bioptic, or student driver instruction? The presenters will answer these questions in addition to previewing a one-day workshop that focuses on the driving question for students and parents.
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Location Literacy
Original webcast date: 10/04/2016
Description: When individuals know how to use coordinates, convert between systems or coordinates, organize and access databases of points of interest, navigate in virtual space, etc. they open up new horizons of opportunity. This Webinar focuses on professionals developing their own location literacy skills as well as learning strategies and techniques for developing the skills of the students they work with.
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Tactile Maps Guidelines
Original webcast date: 3/6/2018
Description: This webinar will look at how to create tactile maps using guidelines for students who are blind and visually impaired. It will include examples of how to represent point features, line features, area features, names with braille characters, map keys and legends, compass rose indicators, etc. Various computer programs such as Microsoft Word and vector graphics programs will also be discussed. Guidelines and other resources can be found in the LiveBinder at: http://bit.ly/tactilemap
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Inside the Adaptive Brain
Original webcast date: 11/03/2015
Description: Inside the Adaptive Brain of Individuals with Ocular Blindness and Cortical Visual Impairment. Keynote presentation by Dr. Lofti Merabet at the 2016 SWOMA conference.
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Inside the Adaptive Brain Q&A
Original webcast date: 11/03/2015
Description: Question & Answer session after keynote presentation, Inside the Adaptive Brain of Individuals with Ocular Blindness and Cortical Visual Impairment. Dr. Lofti Merabet at the 2016 SWOMA conference.
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Building Spatial Skills through Video Game Play
Original webcast date: 11/03/2015
Description: Developing Spatial Navigation Skills through Video Game Play. Keynote presentation by Dr. Lofti Merabet at the 2016 SWOMA conference. Dr. Merabet shows the neuroscience behind evidence-based enhancements in navigation skills for individuals who are blind by using audio/video games to motivate learners and stimulate brain function.
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Building Spatial Skills through Video Game Play Q&A
Original webcast date: 11/03/2015
Description: Question & answer session for Developing Spatial Navigation Skills through Video Game Play. Keynote presentation by Dr. Lofti Merabet at the 2016 SWOMA conference. Dr. Merabet shows the neuroscience behind evidence-based enhancements in navigation skills for individuals who are blind by using audio/video games to motivate learners and stimulate brain function.
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O&M and Assistive Listening Devices
Original webcast date: 02/27/2014
Description: This webinar is an interview with Educational Audiologist Lisa Sutherland about types of assistive listening devices used for different types of hearing losses; and how those devices might be used and/or programmed to help deafblind students better identify environmental sounds for orientation and mobility.
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Using 2013 Michigan Severity Scales for O&M
Original webcast date: 10/16/2014
Description: Webinar on how to use the 2013 Michigan Severity Scales for Orientation & Mobility. Chris Tabb & Ruth Ann Marsh, COMS with Outreach Programs at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired discuss the purpose of the scales and how to use the Basic and Plus+ Scales to make a professional recommendation on the level of O&M services. They demonstrate how to use the Basic scale with sample student data.
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Guide Technique
Description: This video provides direct instruction on how to assist an individual who is blind using guide technique, a mobility system where a guide safely and efficiently walks with a traveler who is blind. Specific skills in basic guide technique, how to go through doorways, how to go up and down stairs, how to handle narrow passageways, adaptations for special situations, etc. along with common courtesies are described and demonstrated.
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