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FSU Visual Disabilities Program @FSU_VisDis

The VI Program at FSU prepares future teachers of students with visual impairments (TVI) and orientation and mobility specialists (OMS).

Joined October 2021
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FSU is hiring O&M Teaching Faculty/Coordinator Please share & help us find a collaborative and dynamic colleague to join the Visual Disabilities Program at FSU as early as July 16th! Questions: bischof@fsu.edu Description for job code 51328 at link: hr.fsu.edu/working-fsu/prosp…
As part of Low Vision Awareness Month, click the link for a visual simulation of how the world may appear to a person with a visual impairment. search.yahoo.com/search?ei=U…
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Happy Low Vision Awareness Month from all of us at FSU, check the link for resources from NIH nei.nih.gov/learn-about-eye-…
Look at our Doctoral candidate @Erika_TVICOMS representing us and all TVI/COMS at conferences all over FL and @CECMembership
Dr. Jenny Root (Taylor’s Version)@Dr_Jenny_Root
9 Feb 2022
Reunited with @DrSarahCox in person for the first time in 2 years! We all had our buckets filled at #DADDCEC2022 @CECDADD @Erika_TVICOMS @Addie_McConomy @MrsDennis @williamsalicen @DeidreGilley @HelloEmStover
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And keep looking bc she is doing great things! We are glad you are getting such a solid foundation of knowledge and putting it to use for and with individuals who are blind and visually impaired. It's what we are about!
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Do you have an idea? Do you want to try your hand in some teacher action research or other projects? Apply for the @CEC_DVIDB grant!
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We love O&M and TVI at FSU ❤ come see how you can be a part of it!!
Dr. Perry and 5 O&M students pose in front of the Westcott Building at FSU

ALT Dr. Perry and 5 O&M students pose in front of the Westcott Building at FSU
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FSU faculty and students so happy to help out with @LBigbend and their annual Dining in the Dark. It was a huge success! Hope to see you there next year!
Dr. Perry and 4 students in the FSU Visual Disabilities Program pose for a picture after a successful Dining in the Dark experience!

ALT Dr. Perry and 4 students in the FSU Visual Disabilities Program pose for a picture after a successful Dining in the Dark experience!

LBB director announcing an award recipient at Dining in the Dark 2022

ALT LBB director announcing an award recipient at Dining in the Dark 2022

At the O&M booth in the exhibition area of the Dining in the Dark event, a student demonstrates a Dakota Disc cane tip

ALT At the O&M booth in the exhibition area of the Dining in the Dark event, a student demonstrates a Dakota Disc cane tip

Excited participants are ready to be escorted to their table where they will dine in the dark with Lighthouse of Big Bend. They are lined up with their hand on the shoulder of the person in front of them as a modified human guide technique

ALT Excited participants are ready to be escorted to their table where they will dine in the dark with Lighthouse of Big Bend. They are lined up with their hand on the shoulder of the person in front of them as a modified human guide technique
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Where is the time to teach AT?? All through the ECC!! We need more ATs, O&Ms, and TVIs. Contact us to find out more! #ATIA2022 #ECC
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Love this #inclusionANDrepresentation #ATIA2022 @CAST_UDL #AAC
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Yes @ATIA2022 !! How can we help students get through school and to become adults? How can we also help employers to be more accessible so they can hire our students?
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ATIA is #epubtastic #ATIA2022 @ATIAorg
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FSU Visual Disabilities enjoying the many exciting paths to accessibility through tech #ATIA2022 #clusive #Orlando
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FSU O&M doing our best to simulate auditorium seating!! PD: 2 future COMS walking in between two rows of chairs in our classroom. One student is guiding the other through the row
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Accessibility is what we do. Spreading awareness and having people like @_cierrajade_ presenting on a national stage using descriptions for slides underlines the necessity and doability of #a11y @CECMembership @CEC_DVIDB
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Visual disabilities is representing #CEC2022 ! Come see us @Erika_TVICOMS in the FSU Booth (526) in the expo hall and learn about all that @FSUSpecialEd has to offer! @CECMembership
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Helping our partner @LBigbend spread the word about their Dining in the Dark experience, a business casual social event to bring awareness of visual impairment to business professionals, lawmakers, and other interested persons in and for our field seeingindependence.org/event…
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Way to go @Conchitahdz pathstoliteracy.org/blog/bed…

Bedtime in a Box Made Accessible – Paths to Literacy

Paths to Literacy Bedtime in a Box Made Accessible. For teachers, families, and others interested in literacy for children and youth with visual impairments

pathstoliteracy.org
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O&M students learning strip mall and escalator travel in Tallahassee,FL, 1/10/22 #OrientationAndMobility #Escalators @fsueducation @abby_reinholt
O&M students practicing white cane skills outside the mall wall

ALT O&M students practicing white cane skills outside the mall wall

O&M students practicing sidewalk travel by a mall

ALT O&M students practicing sidewalk travel by a mall

O&M students practicing and learning escalator skills

ALT O&M students practicing and learning escalator skills

O&M students practicing and learning escalator skills

ALT O&M students practicing and learning escalator skills
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#LiteracyForAll
BANA@BRLAuthority
4 Jan 2022
Happy #WorldBrailleDay to all!
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