1. AER O&M Conference New Orleans, December 13, 2013 Rona Pogrund, Ph.D., COMS Debra Sewell, TVI Debra Sewell 1

2. Part 1: The Curriculum Part 2: Comprehensive Initial and Ongoing Evaluation Part 3: Appendices Part 4: Supplement: Street Crossings for Travelers Who Are Visually Impaired 2

3.  Terminology has been updated  Additional information has been added for teaching students with multiple impairments  Functional Mobility Tasks have been updated  Several new goals have been added  Additional objectives have been added to many of the goals  Additional teaching strategies have been included for many of the goals and objectives 3

4.  O&M instructor to specialist  Sighted guide technique to guide technique  Used person first language  Assessment to evaluation  Multiple disabilities to multiple impairments  Hand-over-hand to hand-under-hand  Sighted assistance to assistance  Support canes to one-handed support devices  Special transit to paratransit 4

5.  Building Rapport  Evaluating the Student  Planning Instruction  Planning the Lesson  Instructing the Student  Reinforcement  Ongoing Evaluation 5

6. Data Collection Sheet 6

7.  Added new sections ◦ Purposeful Movement ◦ Active Learning ◦ CVI  Expanded ambulatory devices and made an additional section with goals and objectives 7

8.  An Ambulatory Devices section has been added that includes: ◦ Wheelchairs (including a checklist) ◦ Walkers ◦ Crutches ◦ One-handed support devices 8

9.  Comprehensive Initial and Ongoing Evaluation  Still available in print booklet form  Available in electronic format (disc) to be used on multiple platforms (for example iPad, Kindle, laptops) 9

10.  Evaluations ◦ Comprehensive Initial and Ongoing Evaluation ◦ Wheelchair Skills Checklist ◦ Purposeful Movement Behaviors ◦ O&M Assessment: Early Years of Birth through Three Years O&M  Data Sheet  O&M Terms in Spanish  Evaluation Report Template  Street Crossing and Intersection Charts from Part 4 10

11.  New Appendices have been added:  Resources for Explaining the Benefits of O&M  Legal Issues in O&M  Research Studies in O&M Supporting Evidence-Based Practices  Problem Solving 11

12.  O&M Strategies for Working with Students with Deafblindness and Other Communication Challenges  Mobility Terms in Spanish  O&M Evaluation Report Template and Sample Reports 12

13.  Some appendices were significantly revised:  Early O&M Evaluations  Adaptive Mobility Devices  Cane Selection  O&M Instruction with Students Using Dog Guides  Promoting Movement  Using Tactile Maps as an Orientation Aid 13

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15.  Assistive Technology Used in O&M (formerly ETDs)  Personal Safety in the Community (formerly Outdoor Safety)  Alternative Indoor Activities  Music Motivation (formerly Motivational Mobility Melodies)  Evaluation and Training of Visual Efficiency Skills 15

16.  A template and several sample reports are included in this appendix  The template contains the following areas:  Student information  Visual information  Medical information  Additional information (e.g., literacy medium, optical devices, interview results)  Evaluation results  Recommendations 16

17. I. Introduction II. Intersection Analysis III. Street Crossing Timings IV. Scanning to Monitor Traffic V. Additional Tools VI. References 17

18. Applying the information in Street Crossings for Travelers Who Are Visually Impaired helps travelers lower the inherent risk in crossing streets. Travelers who learn and apply this information will be safer and better able to travel independently in familiar and unfamiliar areas with less need for mobility instruction in the future. 18

19.  Crossing a channelized right-turn lane – corner to right-turn island, right-turn island to corner 19

20. Rona Pogrund, Ph.D., COMS Associate Professor Texas Tech University rona.pogrund@ttu.edu 512-206-9213 Debra Sewell Curriculum Coordinator Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired sewelld@tsbvi.edu 512-206-9183 20