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Cortazzo, Arnold; Sansone, Robert – Teaching Except Child, 1969
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation, Money Management
Knott, Natalie Isaak – 2002
This book is a guide to teaching orientation and mobility (O&M) skills to students with visual impairments in the public schools. The first chapter offers an overview of the nature and responsibilities of the orientation and mobility specialist and explains the fields legal underpinnings. Next comes a look at O&M in relation to the school year…
Descriptors: Blindness, Daily Living Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Multiple Disabilities
Download full textGense, 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
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
Peer reviewedEhresman, Paul – RE:view, 1994
An orientation and mobility (O&M) instructor presents a case study of a blind 14 year old with mild cognitive deficits and emotional and behavioral problems. The case study demonstrates the importance of individualizing the O&M curriculum, including changing the usual sequence of instruction. (DB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Blindness, Case Studies
Gense, D. Jay; Gense, Marilyn – 1999
This fact sheet about students who are deaf-blind provides information on orientation and mobility (O&M) training. It begins by describing orientation and mobility skills, and emphasizes the need for a team approach in the development and implementation of O&M instruction. Instructional strategies are described, including initial assessment of O&M…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Children, Deaf Blind, Educational Environment
Folsom, Geneva S.; And Others – 1975
The third and final volume of the Life Skills for the Developmentally Disabled Project is a manual for assessing and training institutionalized clients for deinstitutionalization and community living. Charts for goal setting and objective plans with information on materials, setting, instructional plans, procedures, evaluation and followup methods…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Daily Living Skills, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Developmental Disabilities
American Foundation for the Blind, New York, NY. – 1968
Suggestions for curriculum development for educable mentally handicapped, visually handicapped students aged 13 to 18 years are presented. A discussion of communication skills includes the areas of listening, oral communication, reading, writing, and spelling and teaching methods for each. The goals of the computation skills sequence, basic…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Arithmetic, Communication Skills, Curriculum
Cincinnati Public Schools, OH. – 1964
The curriculum guide defines its organization and use, curricular approach, and the teaching methodology for special classes of slow learners (educable mentally handicapped) in the Cincinnati Public Schools. The instructional program is build around 12 persisting life problems; health, safety, communication, citizenship, family life, social…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Arithmetic, Citizenship, Consumer Education
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
