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Download full textAlameda County School Dept., Hayward, CA. – 1969
Several school districts participated in a project providing orientation and mobility instruction to 50 visually handicapped students. Students received four to five lessons a week and were instructed in long cane usage. Tactual maps were used for orientation. Evaluation by their instructor and an outside expert rated 21 of 27 students as having…
Descriptors: Blindness, Case Records, Exceptional Child Research, Mobility Aids
Cook, Jean, Ed.; Mitchner, Gary, Ed. – 1993
During a 4-week period in June and July of 1992, 10 faculty members from two-year colleges in Ohio traveled to Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Romania as part of the Building the Capacity for International Competitiveness (BCIC) program, a partnership of three Ohio community colleges. Focusing on gathering information to assist in the development of…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Art, Business, Business Education Teachers
Canter, Patricia; And Others – 1977
The services of the Living Skills Center for the Visually Handicapped, a habilitative service for blind young adults, are described. It is explained that the Center houses its participants in their own apartments in a large complex and has served over 70 young people in 4 years. The evaluation section describes such assessment instruments as an…
Descriptors: Cleaning, Clothing Instruction, Daily Living Skills, Hygiene
Williams, Ben H.; And Others – 1982
The Project OMNI curriculum is intended to help students develop necessary prerequisite skills for independent travel. The teacher's guidebook provides an overview of the OMNI curriculum components (individual student inventories, individual student profiles, and curriculum modules); discusses the relation of the module areas to the mobility…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Concept Formation, Curriculum Guides, Daily Living Skills
Thompson, William W. – 1967
To train blind persons in the use of the long cane mobility technique and to reach a variety of clients, a demonstration used the trainee's home as a base of operation. Of 198 referrals during the 3-year project, 61 persons started training and 42 persons between the ages of 12 and 92 successfully completed the instruction. Trainees began to learn…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Age Differences, Attitudes, Blindness
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
Peer reviewedGallagher, Brian R.; de Oca, Patricia Montes – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1998
Presents guidelines for orientation and mobility instructors and traffic engineers to assess the need for adaptive devices to make crosswalks at signalized intersections accessible to pedestrians with visual impairments. The discussions of audible and tactile pedestrian devices, along with case examples, distinguish when each device should be…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Adults, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Auditory Stimuli
McCarron, Lawrence; And Others – 1982
The curriculum guide was designed to teach prevocational and independent living skills to students with a wide range of handicapping conditions. The SSSQ (Street Survival Skills Questionnaire) curriculum presents information on objectives, materials, suggested performance criteria, teacher strategies, and specific students activities for the…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Daily Living Skills
CLARK, LESLIE L.; AND OTHERS – 1965
THESE PROCEEDINGS WERE PREPARED FROM THE WEST COAST REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH RELATED TO BLIND AND SEVERELY VISUALLY IMPAIRED CHILDREN HELD MARCH 8-10, 1965. SURVEY RESULTS WERE PRESENTED WHICH INDICATED THE NUMBER OF BLIND, SEVERELY VISUALLY IMPAIRED, AND MULTIPLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN IN CALIFORNIA AND THE INCIDENCE OF BLINDNESS IN CHILDREN…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Auditory Perception, Blindness
Schiltz, Constance, Ed. – 1974
Intended to help classroom teachers develop basic orientation and mobility skills in young visually impaired children, the curriculum guide contains five interrelated sections that deal with body image, basic sensory concepts and abilities, motor coordination, sensory modalities, and pre-cane skills. Each section contains a brief introduction and…
Descriptors: Blindness, Body Image, Check Lists, Curriculum Guides
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
Duran, Elva – 1982
Vocational and language skill development of severely retarded and autistic adolescent Hispanics is a training focus at the University of Texas, El Paso. University students and parents of the handicapped are trained in the following areas: teaching grocery shopping and how to order from fast food restaurants, teaching use of public…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism, Communication Skills, Daily Living Skills
Meyen, Edward L.; Carr, Donald L. – 1968
Developmental steps to writing life experience units for the educable retarded are outlined and six units are partially completed. Objectives of the unit, sub-units, core activities, resource materials, vocabulary words, and lesson plans are provided for primary units on school orientation and clothing, intermediate units on grooming and taking a…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Clothing Instruction, Curriculum Guides, Educational Objectives
Riordan, Mary – 1973
The manual, to be used by the itinerant resource teacher, presents teaching objectives and proficiency levels for the development of communication, living, and social skills of visually handicapped students in kindergarten through grade 12. Communication skills are enumerated (number is indicated in parentheses) for totally blind students in areas…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Blindness, Braille, Communication Skills
TOBIAS, JACK – 1963
AN OCCUPATIONAL DAY CENTER FOR MENTALLY RETARDED ADULTS WAS ESTABLISHED TO PROVIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR RETARDED PERSONS WHO LIVE AT HOME AND, ALTHOUGH BEYOND SCHOOL AGE, ARE UNABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN SHELTERED WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES. THE STAFF INCLUDES A DIRECTOR, A SOCIAL WORKER, FIVE INSTRUCTORS, A TRAINING SUPERVISOR, AN OFFICE WORKER, AND A…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Day Care, Demonstration Programs
