Orientation and Mobility with Students who have Neurological Visual Impairments

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Description

Overview of NVI and what impacts students may be experiencing during O&M lessons. We will look at a variety of environments and talk about how to improve travel within each. We will also talk about the types of sensory and other stressors that may influence a student’s visual functioning.

Participants will:

Describe Neurological Visual Impairment.
Know some of the influences on student visual functioning.
Recognize environments that support and hinder visual functioning.
Begin to plan lessons that support improved use of vision for students with NVI.

This session is presented by Dawn Anderson and Rob Wall Emerson.

Contributors

Dawn Anderson

Dawn Anderson PhD, is an associate professor at WMU, she coordinates the TCVI, and O&M with Children’s graduate programs. She is the PI for an OSEP Stepping Up to Technology grant; CVI Training for Effective Teaching of Students with Visual Impairment. She has completed research in the areas of assessment validation and reliability testing, literacy and math instruction and the efficacy of O&M, image description for math instruction and Echoidentification.
Robert Wall Emerson, Ph.D.

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Contributors

Dawn Anderson

Robert Wall Emerson, Ph.D.