Author: Natalie Isaak KnottPublisher: American Foundation for the Blind
ISBN: 9780891283911
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Teaching Orientation and Mobility in the Schools
Author: Natalie Isaak KnottPublisher: American Foundation for the Blind
ISBN: 9780891283911
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Art and Science of Teaching Orientation and Mobility to Persons with Visual Impairments
Author: William Henry JacobsonPublisher: American Foundation for the Blind
ISBN: 9780891282457
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
An updated and comprehensive description of the techniques of teaching orientation and mobility, presented along with considerations and strategies for sensitive and effective teaching. Factors like individual needs, environmental features, and ethical issues are also discussed in this important text.
Itinerant Teaching
Author: Jean E. OlmsteadPublisher: American Foundation for the Blind
ISBN: 9780891288787
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Using the practical advice from itinerant teachers within the US, each chapter develops strategies for working with students with visual impairments. It discusses the rights, expectations and demands of itinerant teaching, as well as the provision of services within a variety of environments.
Foundations of Orientation and Mobility
Author: William R. WienerPublisher: American Foundation for the Blind
ISBN: 0891284486
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Foundations of Orientation and Mobility, the classic professional reference and textbook has been completely revised and expanded to two volumes by the most knowledgeable experts in the field. The new third edition includes both the latest research in O&M and expanded information on practice and teaching strategies. Volume 1, History and Theory, includes the bases of O&M knowledge, including perception, orientation, low vision, audition, kinesiology, psychosocial issues, and learning theories, as well as chapters on technology, dog guides, orientation aids, and environmental accessibility. A section on the profession of O&M includes its international history; administration, assessment and program planning; and a chapter on research in O&M. No O&M student or professional can afford to be without this essential resource.
Orientation and Mobility
Author: Steven J. La GrowPublisher:
ISBN: 9780982179246
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Orientation and Mobility Techniques
Author: Diane L. FazziPublisher: Blind
ISBN: 9780891286844
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The very first techniques book in orientation and mobility has been completely revised and updated for today's fast-changing world, while remaining true to Hill and Ponder's simple organizational principles that generations have known and loved. A new, easy-to-read color format, accompanying photographs, updated information on street crossings at complex intersections, and a new chapter on O&M for people with low vision make this revised edition a must-have in your O&M library.
Another Kind of Public Education
Author: Patricia Hill CollinsPublisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807000182
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
In this fiercely intelligent yet accessible book, one of the nation's leading sociologists and experts on race calls for "another kind of public education"--one that opens up more possibilities for democracy, and more powerful modes of participation for young people of color.
Community-based Instruction
Author: Barbara A. BeakleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780865869837
Category : Community education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This guide is intended to provide teachers of student with disabilities with resources, ideas, and procedures in implementing community-based instruction (CBI). The first chapter defines CBI, explains its importance, differentiates CBI from field trips, discusses appropriate CBI participants and stakeholders, and reviews the research on CBI. Chapter 2 focuses on expectations for CBI including expected outcomes, expectations for students, expectations for families, expectations for communities, and how expected outcomes of CBI respond to school reform issues. The following chapter considers procedures for program implementation including 10 steps to utilizing CBI, CBI sites for older students, and necessary resources and support systems. Chapter 4 considers the school and classroom component of CBI such as application of the general curriculum and alternative curriculum approaches and the transition portion of the Individualized Education Program. The following chapter focuses on development of independence and self-determination skills as well as natural environments for CBI and transfer of skills from classroom to community. Chapter 6 addresses issues concerned with evaluation of CBI programs, noting important evaluation questions and how to use assessment information to show accountability. The last two chapters focus on maintaining and generalizing community skills and the dynamics of community-based instruction, respectively. Appendices include a variety of sample forms. A CD-ROM containing the appendix files is also included.(Individual chapters contain references.) (DB).
Teaching Age-appropriate Purposeful Skills
Author: Rona L. PogrundPublisher: Texas School for the Blind &
ISBN: 9781880366189
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Keys to Educational Success
Author: Sharon SacksPublisher: AFB Press
ISBN: 9780891285519
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
"Published in conjunction with the Perkins School for the Blind."