Support Services for Children » Vision/Orientation and Mobility
Vision/Orientation and Mobility
Overview The Vision Department provides support for the visually impaired student in the areas of academics, orientation and mobility, and functional living skills. Service requests are met for legally blind children and whose etiology indicates a progressive loss of functional visual ability. Tactile and voice adaptations of academic and curriculum materials enhance the student’s experience to learn information presented to sighted peers in a comparable manner. Services The Vision Teacher acts as a liaison between the school and the family, with responsibilities for: - evaluating the student's functional vision
- conducting print assessments
- training in the efficient use of residual vision
- training in the use of near vision aids
- instruction in learning and using Braille, as needed
- interpreting of visual information to classroom teachers and related personnel
- training in gross and fine motor skills, as part of visual/motor coordination
- working in visual perception as it is related to the student’s visual impairment
- refining the student's successful transition to a work/training program or post secondary educational opportunity
- providing a visual stimulation program to develop the remaining senses.
Materials Adaptations - transcribing printed material into Braille
- enlarging print material for the low-vision student
- attending to formatting options
- using precise language analogies and auditory cues
- providing tactile modeling demonstrations
- using visible scale models, magnifiers and nonoptical devises
- manipulating learner movements
Evaluations for Vision, Orientation and Mobility and Rehabilitation.
For children whose visual acuity is 20/70-20/200 or worse - examining how a child is using his/her vision in a functional manner
- obtaining the required ophthalmologic report
- making recommendations based on observation and assessment of a student
Vision Supplementary Support - training for the one-to one aide assigned to the student for academic day
- providing the supervision/evaluation process, outlined in the Monroe #1 BOCES teachers contract, for Vision personnel employed by a private agency or school district.
- offering staff development activities
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