Visual Impairment
This term is used to describe the inability to see or a lack of vision.
What is blind?
The month we celebrate our wonderful occupational therapy practitioners.
What is April?
A student population that might be eligible to receive SPED homebound instructional services?
Who are students with a special education diagnosis that are estimated to miss face to face classroom/campus instruction for a minimum of 4 weeks due to a medical illness?
Any item, piece of equipment, software program, or product system that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of persons with disabilities.
What is Assistive Technology?
This category of skills include the tasks and functions people perform in daily life to increase their independence and contribute to the family structure. These skills include personal hygiene, eating skills, food preparation, time and money management, clothing care, and household tasks. People with vision typically learn such daily routines through observation, whereas individuals with visual impairments often need systematic instruction and frequent practice in these daily tasks.
What is independent living skills?
This term is used describe a person with central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in his or her better eye with correction or a visual field of 20 degrees or less.
What is legal blindness or legally blind?
ADL is the abbreviation for...
What is activities of daily living?
This employee contacts a US Board certified physician to request the Homebound Needs Evaluation Referral to be signed and dated on behalf of a student that receives special education services and requests to receive instruction in the home.
Who is the diagnostician or diagnostician's office representative?
Visual Schedules
Picture exchange cards
Adaptive Paper
Slant board
What are examples of low-tech AT?
Instruction in this area of the expanded core curriculum aims to ensure that students with visual impairments will have opportunities to explore, experience, and choose physical and leisure-time activities, both organized and individual, that they enjoy. This instruction should focus on the development of life-long skills.
What are recreation and leisure skills?
The term used for a student/person who uses tactile and auditory senses rather than sight as their primary avenues for gathering information.
What is functionally blind?
The movements of both hands together in activities requires processing and integration of both hemispheres of the brain to enable both hands working together at the same time.
What is bilateral coordination?
This form must also include the estimated beginning and ending dates for instructional services to be received in a student's home that is signed and dated by a US Board Certified Physician.
What is the SPED Homebound Needs Evaluation- Referral by a Licensed Physician?
AAC devices (ex.LAMP words for life)
Switch interface
Specialized Computer software
What are examples of high-tech AT?
This term refers to nine categories of experiences and concepts casually and incidentally learned by sighted students that need to be systematically and sequentially taught to learners who are visually impaired, through their educational teams.
What is the expanded core curriculum?
To qualify for school based occupational therapy there must be an__________________need.
What is educational?
This committee ultimately decides if a student meets the requirements to receive SPED homebound instructional services in the home which is the most restrictive environment.
What is he ARD Committee?
AT Specialist
Speech (not assistants)
OT
PT
VI
Special Education Instructional Coaches
Who is part of the AT team?
Skills in this area provide students with a visual impairment, of all ages and motor abilities, lessons that incorporate skills ranging from basic body image, spatial relationships, and purposeful movement to cane usage, travel in the community, and use of public transportation. These specialized skills aim to provide individuals with a visual impairment the ability to be oriented to their surroundings and to move as independently and safely as possible.
What is orientation and mobility skills?
These four evaluations are required when determining an initial visual impairment eligibility.
What is the functional vision evaluation, learning media assessment, orientation and mobility assessment, and the assessment of the expanded core curriculum?
Moving into the 1800s, the benefit of occupational engagement was understood more and more. ADL and IADL participation was encouraged alongside arts and crafts. Known as "The father of occupational therapy", this individual was a strong advocate for occupational engagement and eventually formed the National Society for Promotion of Occupational Therapy (now known as the American Occupational Therapy Association, or AOTA). This allowed for more clients to receive Occupational Therapy services.
Who is William Rush Dunton Jr.?
First, parental consent must be signed for the district to communicate with the student's Physician, HB Needs Evaluation form should be completed with estimated beginning and ending dates and signed and dated by a Physician and finally an ARD is held to determine if the student meets the criteria to receive instruction in the home setting.
What is the procedure to determine SPED HB Request for HB services?
Joe currently has difficulties in all classes, general/special and at home when completing assignments requiring a written response. Though he knows what he wants to write and can dictate correct responses, he struggles with spelling and correct letter formation. THIS AT device would most likely benefit Joe...
What is a portable word processor with talk to text?
This category includes skills necessary for accessing the core curriculum including concept development; communication modes; organization and study skills; access to print materials; and the use of braille/Nemeth, tactile graphics, object and/or tactile symbols, sign language, and audio materials.
What is compensatory skills?