GATES – ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY (O&M)

Orientation and Mobility training encourages students with visual impairments to develop essential skills, build confidence in their ability to travel safely and independently within various environments and to take responsibility. By developing these skills, students with visual impairments and blindness are able to participate to a fuller extent in their school and community life. For this reason ISVI offers O&M for GATES students. O&M topics that will be addressed in the course will differ based on students’ needs and IEP goals. In general, students will work on the following: concepts and sensory development skills, cane skills and travel techniques including public transportation, orientation skills which will address mapping and route planning, visual efficiency skills related to travel, personal safety and advocacy skills.

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