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Introduction to the3rd Edition of TAPS

AER O&M ConferenceNew Orleans, December 13, 2013

Rona Pogrund, Ph.D., COMSDebra Sewell, TVI

Debra Sewell

Four Parts of TAPS

Part 1: The Curriculum

Part 2: Comprehensive Initial and Ongoing Evaluation

Part 3: Appendices

Part 4: Supplement: Street Crossings for Travelers Who Are Visually Impaired

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Terminology has been updated

Additional information has been added for teaching students with multiple impairments

Functional Mobility Tasks have been updated

Several new goals have been added

Additional objectives have been added to many of the goals

Additional teaching strategies have been included for many of the goals and objectives

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What’s New in Part 1: The Curriculum

What’s New: Terminology

O&M instructor to specialist Sighted guide technique to guide technique Used person first language Assessment to evaluation Multiple disabilities to multiple impairments Hand-over-hand to hand-under-hand Sighted assistance to assistance Support canes to one-handed support devices Special transit to paratransit

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Using the Curriculum for Program Development

Building Rapport Evaluating the Student Planning Instruction Planning the Lesson Instructing the Student Reinforcement Ongoing Evaluation

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Data Collection Sheet

What’s New: Students with Multiple Impairments

Added new sections◦Purposeful Movement◦Active Learning◦CVI

Expanded ambulatory devices and made an additional section with goals and objectives

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Ambulatory Devices Section An Ambulatory Devices section has been added that includes:◦Wheelchairs (including a checklist)◦Walkers◦Crutches◦One-handed support devices

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What’s New in Part 2: Evaluation Booklet

Comprehensive Initial and Ongoing EvaluationStill available in print booklet formAvailable in electronic format (disc) to be used on multiple platforms (for example iPad, Kindle, laptops)

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Evaluations◦ Comprehensive Initial and Ongoing Evaluation◦ Wheelchair Skills Checklist ◦ Purposeful Movement Behaviors◦ O&M Assessment: Early Years of Birth through

Three Years O&M Data Sheet O&M Terms in Spanish Evaluation Report Template Street Crossing and Intersection Charts from

Part 4

Items to be included on the disc 

NewPart 3: Appendices

New Appendices have been added:Resources for Explaining the Benefits of O&M

Legal Issues in O&MResearch Studies in O&M Supporting Evidence-Based Practices

Problem Solving

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O&M Strategies for Working with Students with Deafblindness and Other Communication Challenges

Mobility Terms in SpanishO&M Evaluation Report Template and

Sample Reports

NewPart 3: Appendices (cont.)

Appendices - revised

Some appendices were significantly revised:Early O&M EvaluationsAdaptive Mobility DevicesCane SelectionO&M Instruction with Students Using Dog

GuidesPromoting MovementUsing Tactile Maps as an Orientation Aid

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Yoga

Appendices – revised (cont.)

Assistive Technology Used in O&M (formerly ETDs)

Personal Safety in the Community (formerly Outdoor Safety)

Alternative Indoor ActivitiesMusic Motivation (formerly Motivational

Mobility Melodies)Evaluation and Training of Visual

Efficiency Skills

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O&M Evaluation Report Template and Samples

A template and several sample reports are included in this appendix

The template contains the following areas:Student informationVisual informationMedical informationAdditional information (e.g., literacy medium,

optical devices, interview results)Evaluation resultsRecommendations

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New Part 4 – Supplement: Street Crossings for Travelers Who Are Visually Impaired by Wendy Scheffers

and Linda Myers

I. IntroductionII. Intersection AnalysisIII. Street Crossing TimingsIV. Scanning to Monitor TrafficV. Additional ToolsVI. References

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Why Part 4 Was Developed

Applying the information in Street Crossings for Travelers Who Are Visually Impaired helps travelers lower the inherent risk in crossing streets. Travelers who learn and apply this information will be safer and better able to travel independently in familiar and unfamiliar areas with less need for mobility instruction in the future.

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Crossing a channelized right-turn lane – corner to right-turn island, right-turn island to corner

Example

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Rona Pogrund, Ph.D., COMSAssociate ProfessorTexas Tech Universityrona.pogrund@ttu.edu512-206-9213

Debra SewellCurriculum CoordinatorTexas School for the Blind and Visually Impairedsewelld@tsbvi.edu 512-206-9183

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