SPED 5318 Final Practice

Individuals with sufficient vision to travel without a cane usually do not need O&M services for orientation and safety

Three types of service team models in education include multidisciplinary, antidisciplinary, and intradisciplinary.

Being itinerant does NOT impact the ability establish relationships and collaborate with other members of the team.

A student needs to have good balance when walking in order to use a long cane.

Students with Deafblindness benefit from

Optical devices include a telescope and magnifier.

Students with low vision who do not need a cane for mobility do not demonstrate a need O&M instruction.

To obtain a guide dog, the student needs to have training with the dog, at least 16, and have experience in O&M.

The Low Vision Specialist prescribes low vision devices but does not train the student on the care and use of device.

Students w/MDVI may learn how to solicit assitance to shop and make purchases from a store employee at a grocery store.

Maps are helpful tools to learn the layout of a school campus, a city, and city bus sytem.

Truncated domes are the tactile dots on the ramps located at the corner of an intersection.

Map reading skills include

The COMS' main oal is to provide individuals with VI the skills & concepts to travel safely & independently as possible.

The TSVI can reinforce O&M skills in a residential environment by working on map reading skills and compass directions.

The TSVI has the appropriate qualification to teach a lesson on cane skills if a COMS is missing a scheduled lesson.

Accessible pedestrian signals are considered to be orientation aids.

TX law states that the TSVI decides if/when a student needs an O&M evaluation for initial eligibility for VI Services.

If a student has CVI and only a mild hearing loss, he is NOT eligible for services for Deafblind.

In O&M, mobility refers to understanding where you are and how you will get from point A to point B.

Naming hallways is a helpful tool in learning a new school environment.

The understanding of compass directions is the most transferrable skill for a student with a visual impairment.

Which area of the ECC is addressed when the COMS teaches the use of GPS, AMD, and the long cane?

Challenges to team function include

Students do not need O&M if they are independent in the home neighborhood and school environment.

Students with orthopedic impairments who use walkers or wheelchairs usually do not benefit from O&M services.

Areas of eligibility include VI, AU, SI. O&M is not an eligibility, but a service provided within the VI eligibility.

The COMS needs to pay close attention to the muscle tone of students with visual and multiple impairments.

When a COMS trains others how to reinforce protective techniques w/student, this is a multidisciplinary approach

A helpful way to learn routes is to organize them by name and shape, such as L, T, or square.

AMD stands for

Non-optical accommodations and/or materials for a student with low vision might include

Low vision skills that a COMS and TSVI might address include scanning and tracking with a monocular.

It is not necessary for the TSVI to understand the instructional sequence and rational for O&M

When working w/students w/multiple disabilities and infants (0-3), services from a TSVI & COMS usually do NOT overlap.