Tuesday, July 22, 2008

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9:00 AM-5:00 PM

MacFarland Seminar

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

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8:00 AM-10:00 AM

O&M Division Business Meeting

8:30 AM-4:00 PM

Low Vision Division - Sharing Strengths in Low Vision Service: A Discussion on the Continuum of Care

8:30 AM-4:45 PM

Administration Division (Div 1) Division Day: ACVREP: Current Updates and Everything You Wanted to Know about AVCREP,Issues and Support for Individuals New to Monocular Vision, and Results Basted Accountability

9:00 AM-9:30 AM

Celebrating Stanley Suterko

10:30 AM-11:45 AM

From Roots to Research to Current Reality: Exploring the Connection Between Independent Mobility and Self-Confidence

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Encompassing Individual Needs While Embracing the Whole Person - a Sergeant Majors Success

On My Clock - Consumers Hiring Orientation & Mobility Professionals

Twenty-First Century Issues Demand Twenty-First Century Solutions

2:15 PM-2:45 PM

Examining Objective Mobility Outcomes

Exploring the FUNdamentals of Independent Travel

Mobility Training at Guide Dogs for the Blind; A Deliberate Shift to Adult Learning Methods

3:00 PM-3:30 PM

Access to Roundabouts and Channelized Turn Lanes: Implications for Orientation and Mobility Instruction

Roundtable: Client-Driven Approach: Benefits and Challenges of Implementing a Client-Driven Approach to O&M

Unified Cane and Dog Mobility--Is It Possible?

4:00 PM-5:00 PM

O&M - W122RT

Paws for Cause 101

Physical Activity among Youth with Vision Loss

7:00 PM-9:00 PM

W125GS AER General Sessions

Thursday, July 24, 2008

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8:00 AM-10:00 AM

A Unified Methodology for Performance Training in Orientation & Mobility, GPS Travel and Computer Technology

Administration (multiple sessions)

An International Perspective on O&M Personnel Preparation and Services: Haiti and the Czech Republic.

Braille Music in the General Education Curriculum

Consumer Perspectives on Psycho-Social Adjustment of Persons Aging with Hearing and Vision Loss

Correlates of Assistive Technology Use by Students with Visual Impairments in the U.S.: Multilevel Modeling of the Special Education Elementary Longitudinal Study

Crossing Streets with No Traffic Control – “Can You Hear Me Now?”

Distance Transcription Training: A New Framework for Success.

Education Curriculum (multiple sessions)

Fear, Future and Foundation

HOW to GET 'EM HOOKED! Creative, Developmentally-Appropriate O&M Teaching Strategies for Infants and Preschoolers

Information & Technology (multiple sessions)

Laughter Yoga for All

Low Vision (multiple sessions)

Multiple Disabilites & Deafblind (multiple sessions)

OM Improvement

Paratransit, Mobility & You

Vision Rehab Therapy (multiple sessions)

Vision Rehab Therapy (multiple sessions)

“I Can't Put My Shoe on” – What Can the Low Vision Professional Do?

10:45 AM-11:45 AM

Guide Dogs for Teenagers: Conclusive Experience

I Got the Music in Me

Safety on the Streets

Street Crossings 2.0: Upgrade Your Street Crossing Strategies or How to Be Wise in the Brave New World.

The Right Stuff at the Right Time: Applying Grade Level Content Standards to O&M

10:45 AM-12:15 PM

"Ask the Doctor"

Advocacy That Really Works: Joining Efforts through a Statewide Coalition.

An Orientation to Mental Health and Its Importance

Assisting Students with Vision Loss to Use Self-Management Strategies to Change Their Own Behavior

Charles Bonnet Visual Hallucinations: “Do You See Things Which Are Not There?”

Demographic Trends in Aging and Sensory Loss

From Agenda to Action: Florida's Response to the National Agenda

From Our Memoirs to Your Practice: Insights from Three Women Who Are Blind or Visually-Impaired

Hand Movement Pattern Analysis from the ABC Braille Project

Perceived Needs of Educators of Students with Visual Impairments Who Work with Students and Families from Culturally and/or Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds

Suggested Math Tools and Technology for Secondary Students with Visual Impairments

TVIs in Training Get Critical Skills FIRST

Training Clients with Visual Deficits Following Acquired Brain Injury: Case Studies

Update on Video Magnification Technology

Will I Ever Know Enough to Teach Students with Such A Wide Range of Additional Disabilities?

1:15 PM-2:45 PM

The Living Skills Center for the Visually Impaired: Specific and Practical Transition Curriculum for Busy Practioners

Using Storytelling in the Teaching of Students with Vision Loss

"I'm Too Old to Learn Braille.": Strategies for Enticing the Adult Learner into Braille Class

Accessing the Curriculum with Low-High Technology Tools for Beginning Braille Readers

Addressing the Expanded Core Curriculum, Not as Difficult as It May Seem

Computer Games for Students with Visual Impairments

Coordinated Intervention Planning for Children with Multiple Disabilities That Have Sensory Impairments and Autism through Use of the Ziggurat Model and the Comprehensive Autism Planning System

Functional Low Vision Assessment for Orientation and Mobility Instructors

Generational Diversity: A New Look at the Work We Do

Guidelines and Standards for Tactile Graphics

HOLD EVERYTHING! Creating Stay-Put Play-'n-Learn Spaces for Young and Developmentally Young Children

Health Disparities and Risks among Older Blind Adults: Implications for Rehabilitation and Wellness

How Does Central Field SLO Assessment Direct Low Vision Rehabilitation? Surprises and Lessons from Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy

Sharing Concerns: Peer Consultation for Problem Solving

The Human Connection - Using AFB CareerConnect with Your Transitional Age Students

Using An Effective Expanded Core Curriculum Instructional Continuum.

What's New in Low Vision".

1:45 PM-2:45 PM

Evaluation of the Confidence and the Autonomy Provided by A Simple GPS Device Designed for Visually Impaired Travellers

Is A Dog Guide Right for Your Client?

Orientation & Mobility (mulitple sessions)

Playful O&M

Providing Cane Clinics to Encourage Cane Use

Severity Rating Scale for Orientation & Mobility: A New Look at A Popular Resource

3:30 PM-5:45 PM

New Intervention/Treatments in Clinical Trials Today: What's the near Future of Vision Rehabilitation for People with Improving Vision?

Friday, July 25, 2008

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8:00 AM-9:00 AM

A Tactile Strategy Game to Enhance Functional Use of Compass Directions in Students with Visual Impairment-A Field Study

Accessible Design for People with Vision Impairments

Accessible Science: How to Describe STEM Images

An Assessment of Consumer Needs: Results of Focus Groups from A State Vocational Rehabilitation Agency

An ORIENTATION & Mobility Teaching Approach for Guide-Dog Travel for the Elderly or Reduced Mobility Population

CERTS: More Than A Breath Mint, A Must for All Situations

Creating Vocational Portfolios to Assist with the Transition

Current Issues in Vision Rehabilitation Therapy

Distance Education - Together Doing More

Emergent Optical Device Use: Introducing Optical Devices to Our Youngest Children

Movin' to Music: Motivating Kids toward O&M

Promoting Excellence: Examples of Good Reading Instruction for Learners with Visual Impairment and Additional Disabilities

Publishing a Manuscript in the JVIB

Sight Unseen - Art for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Strategic Use of Spatial Representations to Maintain Orientation by Indivduals Who Are Congenitally Totally Blind

Sustaining Braille Proficiency with the Online NERCVE Brailler

There Is Always A Way

Veterans Affairs Low Vision Intervention Trial Study Results and Therapy Curriculum

Youth Employment Services: A Continuum Model

9:45 AM-11:30 AM

F382G AER General Session - Friday

1:00 PM-3:00 PM

Aging (mulitple sessions)

CareerConnect as A Tool in the Job Placement Process.

Deaf-Blind Travelers and Communication

How to Connect to the Sighted World through the Arts and Other Media-for People Who Have Low Vision.

Information & Technology (multiple sessions)

Low Vision (multiple sessions)

O&M for Visually Impaired Wheelchair Users

Orientation & Mobility (mulitple sessions)

Personnel Preparation (multiple sessions)

Personnel Preparation (multiple sessions)

Putting ORIENTATION Back into O&M

SupaSleuths--Crime Scene Investigation for Young Detectives.

Teaching Personal Safety to Children with Visual Impairments

The Forgotten Curriculum: Social Skills and Sex Education

The Myths and Realities of Diabetes

Vision Rehab Therapy (multiple sessions)

Vocational Rehabilitation (multiple sessions)

What's in A Name: Understanding Complex Syndromes in Order to Develop Functional O&M Skills, A 2-Part Workshop

3:45 PM-5:15 PM

APS 101 (Accessible Pedestrian Signals) 6 Questions-6 Answers

Accessible GPS: Reorientation and Target Location among Users with Visual Impairments

Aiming for Success: Put Our TAPE Measure in YOUR Employment Support Toolbox!

Brain Injury and Vision Loss: Challenges and Strategies

Collaborative Interventions for Multiply Disabled Children and Their Families

Designing Access to Light Rail Transit

Do I Really Need to Learn the Keyboard by Touch? An Examination of the Need for and Ways to Teach Keyboarding by Touch to Individuals with Vision Loss

Implications of the ABC Braille Study Results for Braille Instruction

Introduction to Windows Vista and Office 2007

Learning Disabilities and Students with Visual Impairment

Learning to Listen and Listening to Learn

Maps for Everyone!

Mobility Issues Facing Older VI Clients

Neuro in A Nutshell: Start Cracking Rehabilitation Training

OPEN ROOM3

Parent Education: Reaching the Hard-to-Reach

Reclaiming Independence: A Video and Resource Guide to Help Elders Stay in the Driver's Seat When They No Longer Drive

Sequencing O&M Skills

“I Opened up A Can of Peas but”…..Food Labeling Options

Saturday, July 26, 2008

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8:00 AM-9:00 AM

AFB's Senior Site: A 24/7 Tool for Professionals, Consumers, and Family Members—Available Anytime, Anywhere

Bracing for the “Demographic Tsunami” – How Demographic and Epidemiologic Projections Can Prepare Us for the Provision of Vision Rehabilitation Services to the Baby Boom Generation

Employment Status, Job TYPE and Employer Desccription among Persons with A Significant Visual Impairment

Expanding Our Core

Getting in Step - Marching Band Basics

Informational Session on the NTC Assistive Technology Certificate Program

Managing to Serve Both Needs with Dual Certification (TVI/O&M)

National Educational Outcomes of Students with Visual Impairments

OPEN ROOM SAT1

Roundtable: Licensure, Certification, Medicare Legislation and Other Issues Impacting on the O&M Delivery

Roundtable: Blindfolding and Other Strategies to Teach People to Use Non-Visual Information

Roundtable: Professional Code of Ethics and the Impact on Professional Liability

Roundtable: Silent Cars and How to Deal with Them

Roundtable: Support Canes and O&M - What Is Our Role, An Dhow Do We Teach Them?

Roundtable: Teaching O&M with Interpreters of a Foreign Language

Roundtable: Using Assessment Results to Determine Dimensions of Services, Such as Skills and Frequency

Social Comparison: Exploring Its Relationship with Vision Impairment and Well Being

The Journey of a Test: How It Becomes Accessible to Students Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired

The Virtual Conference Room: Technology Tools for Professional Communication in the 21st Century

Tools for Change: Advocating for Quality Services

Using Visual/Concrete Supports for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Visual Impairments

9:00 AM-10:00 AM

Saturday Poster Session 9:00 am

10:30 AM-12:30 PM

S421GS Saturday General Session

1:45 PM-3:15 PM

INSIGHT Post Secondary Preparation Program for Students Who Are Blind/Visually Impaired

An Investigation of the Use of Dual Media by Students with Visual Impairments

Chicago's A Breeze

Children with CVI: Outcomes and Opportunities

Conducting An Assistive Technology Assessment

Eating Upside down / Feeding Strategies for Visually Impaired Infants

Good-Bye Typewriter, Hello Computer

OPEN ROOM 4

Sensory Sensations Stations

Taking a Position: I.Q. Testing of Students Who Are Visually Impaired

Teaching Braille to Adults Who Are Visually Impaired: Effective Strategies

Template for Literacy: A Special Education Focus

Up, Up and Away: Tips for Safe and Efficient Travel

2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Effect of Hybrid Vehicles on Street Crossing Decision Making

O&M Training Experiences Utilizing the Trekker GPS

Orientation & Mobility and the Question of Ownership

Orientation and Mobility Services for the Geriatric Low Vision Patient: Who Will Provide These Services and Who Will Pay?

Roundtable: O&M and Private Practice

3:45 PM-4:45 PM

A New Instrument to Evaluate and Motivate Your Orientation and Mobility Students

Finding Your Way: A Practical Approach to Teaching and Learning BrailleNote GPS

Travel Instruction for Students with Disabilities Other Than Blindness

Yellow Tape Is Not A Barrier! ADA & Sidewalk Pedestrian Construction Work Zone Barriers

3:45 PM-5:15 PM

Maximizing Resources: Meeting the Critical Need for Highly-Qualified Teachers in Vision Impairment

Albinism: The Impact on Social Cognition and Social Ability

Connecting Parents with Information and Each Other: AFB's FamilyConnect Site

Hail Hail, Louis Braille! Happy 200th Birthday

Is There A New Role for Family Members in the Vision Rehabilitation of Their Older Relative Who Is Visually Impaired?

Low Vision (multiple sessions)

OPEN ROOM 6

OPEN ROOM 7

OPEN ROOM 8

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Promising Practices for Students with Visual Iimpairments and Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Promising Solutions for Access to Multimedia Instructional Materials in the Classroom

Talking with Miranda

Teaching the Use of Audio Assisted Reading

Sunday, July 27, 2008

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8:00 AM-9:00 AM

Accessible Multi-Media for Science: Teachers' Domain

An Age Cohort Study of Older Adults with and without Impaired Vision: Activity, Independence and Life Satisfaction

Do Students with Visual Impairment Benefit from Movement-Based Learning (Brain Gym)?

Emerging Evidence from Single-Subject Design Studies in the Field of Deafblindness

O&M in Cyber Space, -- Applying O&M Principles and Techniques to Electronic Communication

OPEN ROOM 9

OPEN ROOM10

Quality and Equitable Services to Infants and Preschool Children with Visual Impairment and Their Families: A Provincial Lobbying Effort and New Program

The International Scene in the Blind Biz

9:30 AM-11:00 AM

A Residential School's Transition Program: What It Is - What It Is Not!

Adaptive Gardening: Sowing Seeds and Reaping Confidence

DeafBlind Communicator Project Takes Shape with Washington State Office of Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Education Curriculum - Mulitple Presentations

NEW VISION ENTERPRIZES -A Transitional Student Business Training Program

OPEN ROOM 12

Psychological First Aid

11:00 AM-1:00 PM

NASA Educational Software “EARTH+” Exploration Tool for Blind Students