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Direct linkShupin, C. Jaye; Naimy, Brenda; Casias, Nicholas B. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2022
Over the last decade, many local education agencies (LEAs) across California imposed significant restrictions on community-based orientation and mobility (O&M) instruction. Administrators from these LEAs prohibited O&M Specialists from transporting students off-campus for instruction, with one large Southern California district going so…
Descriptors: Visually Impaired Mobility, Blindness, Visual Impairments, Students with Disabilities
Barrella, Kristi; Besden, Cheryl; Crow, Nita; Greenberg, Maya Delgado; Shrieves, Gary; Smith, Katie A.; Vickroy, Marcia – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2011
Like many other states, California is facing a daunting budget deficit, reportedly about $19 billion. Delayed budgets have held up the disbursement of money, affecting school programs in districts as well as at the California School for the Blind (CSB). The current financial constraints have had an impact on CSB's programs. Its department of seven…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Visually Impaired Mobility, Travel Training, Visual Impairments
Booth, Char – Library Journal, 2010
If digital literacy is exploding, the visually disabled are taking the shrapnel. The author wagers that most librarians consider themselves committed to accessibility and make individual and organizational efforts to comply with (and often exceed) the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in their buildings and the Rehabilitation Act Section 508…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Advocacy, Public Sector, Librarians
Download full textMarston, James R.; Loomis, Jack M.; Klatzky, Roberta L.; Golledge, Reginald G. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2007
A path-following experiment, using a global positioning system, was conducted with participants who were legally blind. On- and off-course confirmations were delivered by either a vibrotactile or an audio stimulus. These simple binary cues were sufficient for guidance and point to the need to offer output options for guidance systems for people…
Descriptors: Cues, Experiments, Blindness, Auditory Stimuli
Crow, Nita – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2008
Every year on or near October 15, the California School for Blind celebrates National White Cane Day. Over the years, all kinds of events have been planned to celebrate the day. About two years ago, the school decided to do something different. Early that fall, staff members in the Orientation and Mobility Department at the school started teaching…
Descriptors: Travel Training, Accessibility (for Disabled), Special Education, Case Studies
Peer reviewedHarrell, Bruce B. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1982
The article describes the recently formed Joint Action Committee of Organizations Of and Serving the Visually Handicapped, made up of groups that united to fight budget cuts in California. The harmful effects of recent legislation on visually handicapped people and on professionals in the blindness system are described. (Author)
Descriptors: Advocacy, Agency Cooperation, Blindness, Legislation
Peer reviewedPogrund, R.; And Others – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1991
The Joint Action Committee of Organizations of and Serving the Visually Handicapped is a coalition of 24 California consumer, parent, and professional organizations; agencies; and product distributors. This article highlights coalition accomplishments in the areas of information dissemination, public policy influence, and public education and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Blindness, Consumer Education, Cooperative Programs
