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Peer reviewedLaGrow, S. J.; And Others – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1992
This report describes the use of peer sampling procedures to develop individualized plans to familiarize an incoming visually impaired person to a university campus and community. Environmental specificity of the procedure is illustrated by application to two residences. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Campuses, College Students, Higher Education, Individualized Programs
Download full textJacobson, William H. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2005
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) has offered a personnel preparation program in orientation and mobility (O&M) since 1975. Since that time, nearly 400 individuals from the United States and numerous foreign countries have either received degrees or have become eligible for national U.S. certification in O&M. However, it…
Descriptors: Travel Training, Visually Impaired Mobility, Visual Impairments, Online Courses
Gense, D. Jay; Gense, Marilyn – National Information Clearinghouse on Children Who Are Deaf-Blind, 2004
Children learn about their environment as they move through it--about people and objects, sizes, shapes, and distances. For typically developing children the senses of sight and hearing provide the greatest motivation for exploration. These children will use their vision and hearing to gather information about their surroundings while growing in…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Student Motivation, Assistive Technology, Visually Impaired Mobility
Wells, Richard T. – 1979
Randolph Technical College (RTC) and the Division of Services for the Blind of the North Carolina Department of Human Resources have cooperated for two years on a program to provide blind students with the opportunity to receive instruction in a traditional classroom setting on a college campus. Problems encountered in the early stages of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Blindness, Braille
Lobuts, Joseph E. – 1977
Using an itinerant team of professional rehabilitation personnel, a three-year project was conducted in West Virginia to provide the older blind in three counties (Cabell, Wood, Kanawha) with comprehensive rehabilitation services in both the home and community so that they could become as independent as possible, and, if possible, obtain gainful…
Descriptors: Blindness, Communication Skills, Community Resources, Daily Living Skills
Greystone Psychiatric Hospital, NJ. – 1983
A joint collaborative effort between Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital and the Parsippany Adult School had as its objective the facilitation of the deinstitutionalization and the assumption of the normal societal role of workers for emotionally disabled citizens. This was to be accomplished through the development, delivery, and refinement of a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Consumer Education, Daily Living Skills, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled)
Jones, John Walker – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963
Information about developments in the field of education of visually handicapped children and about resources available to assist educators in their efforts to initiate, extend, and improve educational programs for these children appears in a wide variety of pamphlets and professional journals. An attempt is made in this bulletin to summarize…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Vision Tests, Parent Counseling, State Departments of Education
