ORMO 4345 FINAL REVIEW

The role of a TSVI and COMS can overlap at time, especially when the child is an infant or has multiple impairments.

This O&M training program is grouped according to different environmental training areas.

If a traveler is totally independent, he/she may never need to solicit assistance.

An environmental assessment helps to identify potential barriers/challenges when a student transitions to a new school.

Students who use mobility aids, such as walkers and wheelchairs, do not need much O&M.

To learn a new school campus, one can name hallways, identify landmarks/clues, and use the numbering system.

The TSVI and COMS should start collaborating to ensure the child has access to the environment as soon as preschool.

Quality educational programming is dependent on the collaboration among team members.

Optical devices for a student with low vision can include

While a TSVI is knowledgeable in O&M to reinforce skills taught by the COMS, the TSVI cannot teach or introduce skills.

Map reading requires the knowledge that

A student with a diagnosed hearing loss and cortical visual impairment would be considered a student with Deafblindness.

Object cues are used to help students understand that a specific object represents an action, place, or activity.

The traveler will be able to detect the edge of the subway platform when he/she finds

Low vision skills with a monocular include scanning and tracking

Independent travel in residential requires knowledge of the following- choose all that applies

In TX when a student is referred for eligibility of visual impairment he/she must also be referred for an O&M Eval.

Relating routes to shapes, such as L or U, is a helpful orientation skill to help one develop a mental map of a route.

Teaching a student to stand up and down is a body to object concept.

Most individuals with good travel vision do not need much training in orientation and safety.

Lack of communication can cause challenges in working well as a team.

Who provides training on a monocular/telescope?

A challenge to itinerant work is being able to collaborate and establish relationships with others.

Universal design is change to the current environment to remove barriers and allow access for persons w/disabilities

Accessible design includes products/environments that all people can use, regardess of age, size, disability

Teaching a student to step over a backpack on the floor and duck under a treebranch is an object-object concept.

The overall goal of O&M is to teach skills and concepts to travel as safely and independently as possible.

Tracing refers to the ability to follow a moving object

It is important for the TSVI to understand the sequence and rational for O&M.

Non optical aids include adjustments to lighting, use of color for contrast, and a 8 x telescope.