Partners in O&M: Supporting Orientation and Mobility for Students Who Are Visually Impaired
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This timely new resource reflects innovative thinking in teaching O&M to children, provides a solid O&M foundation for future O&M specialists, and addresses concepts and strategies other professionals need to know to reinforce O&M skills.
Partners in O&M: Supporting Orientation and Mobility for Students Who Are Visually Impaired is a comprehensive text that serves as an introduction to the field of O&M, with a focus on professionals who work in collaboration with O&M specialists to support O&M instruction for students who are blind or visually impaired. In addition to prospective O&M specialists and teachers of students with visual impairments, Partners in O&M will be of interest to general and special education teachers, physical and occupational therapists, paraeducators, and interveners, among others.
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Foreword
Preface
About the Contributors
1 Overview of Orientation and Mobility
2 Content Development
3 Motor Development
4 Brain Research and Implications for Orientation and Mobility
5 Spatial Orientation and Secondary Senses
6 Basic Orientation and Mobility Skills
7 Orientation and Mobility Systems and Tools
8 Environmental Accessibility
9 Orientation and Mobility and the Expanded Core Curriculum
10 Special Considerations for Students with Visual and Multiple Impairments
11 Collaboration in Orientation and Mobility
Epilogue
Appendix A: Data-Based Decision Making and the Role of Preference Assessments
Appendix B: Sample O&M Evaluation Report
Index
Federal Quota Funds:
Not Available
Publishers:
APH Press
Authors/Editors:
Nora Griffin-Shirley, Rona L. Pogrund
Media:
Book
Format:
Print
Language:
English
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