Self-Paced Tutorials
Student Assessment Data Collection, Part 1
Self-paced | Approximately one hour
This tutorial is the first part of a two-part presentation on data collection. Take this tutorial to learn about efficient data collection systems, when it’s appropriate to collect data and how to...
Student Assessment Data Collection, Part 2
Self-paced | Approximately one hour
As teachers and related service providers, we tend to be at one extreme or the other...too much data without a purpose OR not enough data to determine progress. If you would like to learn how to find...
Student-Centered AAC Design and Intervention, Part 1: Practical, Collaborative Approaches for Learners with Visual Impairments and Additional Disabilities
Self-paced | Multiple days
This tutorial is the first in a two-part series that considers the unique needs of early communicators with visual impairment and additional disabilities (including deaf-blindness) when designing...
Student-Centered AAC Design and Intervention, Part 2: Practical, Collaborative Approaches for Learners with Visual Impairments and Additional Disabilities
Self-paced | Multiple days
In this tutorial, implementation strategies for teaching and using a student-centered AAC system will be presented, using case studies from current students.
This tutorial is the second part in a...
Supporting Availability for Learning: Student-Centered Assessment and Intervention
Self-paced | Multiple days
This tutorial discusses strategies to increase states of behavior in daily activities and educational settings. Participants will earn 1.5 Professional Development Points, ACVREP, CTLE, or Continuing...
Supporting CVI during Orientation & Mobility
Self-paced | Approximately one hour
This tutorial features a brief overview of CVI characteristics and describe how they may affect different students during O&M instruction. In addition the webinar will cover some general...
Tactile Experiences for All: Supporting Students with CVI
Self-paced | Approximately one hour
Recent research supports the benefits of tactile development activities for all children, including those with cortical visual impairment. This presentation will explore what we know about tactile...
Teaching Independent Living Skills (Keys 11)
Self-paced | Multiple weeks
This is a web-based, self-guided professional development activity for Orientation & Mobility Instructors, Parents, TVIs, VRTs, O&Ms, Teachers of the Deafblind or Severely Impaired, and...
Teaching Science
Self-paced | Multiple days
There are 4 video segments included in this training module that demonstrate theories and best practices for teaching science concepts to students who are blind or visually impaired. Participants...
Teaching Science to Young Children With Visual Impairments
Self-paced | Multiple days
Exposure to STEM at an early age leads to success in future classes. In this tutorial participants will be able to use strategies and activities presented to introduce STEM concepts to students who...
Teaching Strategies and Resources for Sensorimotor Stage Learners
Self-paced | Approximately one hour
Tina L. Gutierrez, TVI, MEd
Tina Gutierrez is a Certified TVI employed as an Education Consultant II for the State of CT. ADS – Bureau of Education and Services for the Blind. She has been a member...
Teaching Strategies for Students Who Are Visually Impaired with Additional Disabilities Including Deafblindness
Self-paced | Multiple weeks
This training module includes eight webcasts and their corresponding reading material, which demonstrate a wide range of teaching strategies used to provide effective instruction to students with...
Teaching the ECC to the 21st Century Learner Tutorial
Self-paced | Approximately one hour
Summary:
There are many benefits for teachers to upgrade their instructional practice to embrace 21st Century teaching. This webinar will take a fresh approach to The Expanded Core Curriculum...
Technology for Us Too
Self-paced | Multiple days
This tutorial focuses on teaching basic communication to students who are blind or have low vision with significant multiple disabilities using assistive technology devices both low tech and high...
Technology Tools for Teachers
Self-paced | Multiple days
This tutorial explores how to best use technology in the classroom to meet the needs of students with visual impairments or blindness. It includes information about how to determine which technology...
The CVI Practice Framework: An approach to Supporting Children with Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI)
Self-paced | Approximately one hour
For her doctoral research, to help meet the needs of children with CVI, our presenter Dr. Nicola McDowell proposed a practice framework that can be used within an education or rehabilitation context...
The CVI Umbrella: A Community of Ideas
Self-paced | Approximately one hour
Teaching and supporting children with CVI is a richly rewarding experience that requires a joyful, fervent commitment to continuous learning. Fortunately, our field has many wonderful mentors who...
The Evolution of Michael's AT Journey
Self-paced | Multiple days
This tutorial discusses how personal development and skill grow and change, and how a student's AT grows and changes with him.
Participants will earn 1.5 Professional Development Points, ACVREP, CTLE...
The Impact of Clutter on Children with Cerebral Visual Impairment
Self-paced | Approximately one hour
This tutorial covers Nicola McDowell's masters research project that looked at the impact of clutter on the learning experiences and behaviour of children with CVI. Nicola will also provide a...
The NICU Experience
Self-paced | Multiple days
In this tutorial, Dr. Al Lantzy recounts the story of one family in the Western Pennsylvania Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). While every family’s story is unique, the 2004 journey of...