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Brady, Michael P. – DPH Journal, 1985
Research and practice suggest that the application of orientation and mobility (OM) services to severely multiply handicapped learners is a useful approach. Future assessment, instruction, and personnel preparation activities are presented as they relate to the development of services for a range of people who have mobility limitations. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Multiple Disabilities, Severe Disabilities, Visually Handicapped Mobility
Peer reviewedChen, Deborah; Smith, Julie – RE:view, 1992
This article describes an orientation and mobility program serving 20 students with both developmental disabilities and visual impairments. It documents the low level of baseline behaviors and discusses program components, including the training staff, school environment adaptations, and individualized and community training techniques.…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Multiple Disabilities, Program Effectiveness
Strawbridge, Leigh A.; And Others – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1989
The article describes a training program which effectively taught a profoundly retarded and blind nine-year-old boy to use a walker. One year follow-up indicated maintenance of treatment gains. Ambulation training was correlated with a significant reduction in stereotypic behavior. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Blindness, Case Studies, Children
Peer reviewedJoffee, E.; Rikhye, C. H. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1991
A program for teaching orientation and mobility to New York City public school students with severe sensory and cognitive impairments incorporates tactile and tangible communication systems and embeds mobility education in students' daily school and home activities. This paper examines necessary prerequisite concepts and offers planning and…
Descriptors: Blindness, Communication (Thought Transfer), Integrated Activities, Mental Retardation
Saint Joseph's School for the Blind, Jersey City, NJ. – 1981
St. Joseph's School for the Blind (Jersey City, New Jersey) cooperated with the Occupational Center of Hudson County to establish a model transitional prevocational training program for severely multiply handicapped, visually impaired students. The aim was to assist these student to move from a school environment to a work activity setting where…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Skills, Job Training
Peer reviewedPoss, D. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1991
This article describes the methods used to teach mobility skills to a young man severely disabled (blind and bilaterally hand amputated) by an explosion. Stressed are the assistive devices developed and the therapist's and student's feelings during the training course. (DB)
Descriptors: Adventitious Impairments, Amputations, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Attitudes
Peer reviewedGates, Carmelia; Kappan, David I. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1986
Describes graduate teacher education program at University of Northern Colorado emphasizing full and equal training in three competency areas: academic instruction, orientation/mobility, and needs of severely/profoundly handicapped blind children. Finds program serves rural/small schools and districts lacking sufficient population of visually…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Higher Education, Itinerant Teachers, Multiple Disabilities
Download full textVanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN. Dept. of Special Education. – 1987
The Preschool Orientation and Mobility Project had four major goals as part of its model development activities: (1) develop an Orientation and Mobility (O&M) curriculum for visually impaired and visually impaired/multiply handicapped infants and children, aged 0-5; (2) develop two O&M screening instruments; (3) develop an O&M…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Child Development, Classroom Environment, Computer Uses in Education
