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Empowering Students for Success: Skills and Strategies

Enhance student success with skills like socialization, career education, and compensatory skills. Learn effective feedback and create work opportunities. Boost self-esteem and life skills through high expectations and socialization.

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Empowering Students for Success: Skills and Strategies

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  1. Skills for Success Dr. Karen Wolffe 2109 Rabb Glen Street Austin, TX 78704 512.707.0525 wolffe@afb.net

  2. Levels of Intervention • Informational Level Students • Instructional Level Students • Advocacy Level Students

  3. Basic Career Education Goals • Conveying High Expectations • Encouraging Socialization • Developing Compensatory Skills • Providing Realistic Feedback • Promoting Opportunities to Work

  4. Conveying High Expectations • Critical to self-esteem & life success. • Youngsters need to hear from those around them that it is expected: • They can and will grow up, • Establish families outside of their nuclear families, • Live interdependently, work, and play in the community.

  5. Encouraging Socialization Students need to be able to: • Develop interpersonal relationships at assorted levels (public, acquaintances, friends, and intimates), • Understand reciprocity, and • Understand the nuances of nonverbal communication.

  6. Compensatory Skills • Braille reading and writing skills, • Efficient use of low vision aids, • Orientation and mobility skills, • Use of assistive technology, • Career education, • Social skills, and • Independent living skills.

  7. Providing Realistic Feedback • Young people nee realistic feedback concerning strengths and weaknesses. • Ultimately the evaluation of students’ efforts will be made against a defined norm not simply against their own accomplishments or a perceived level of expertise.

  8. Opportunities to Work • All children and youth need to be engaged in doing chores at home, in the community, and in school. • They also need volunteer experiences, part-time work during and after school, summer jobs, and to participate in work/study programs.

  9. Resources • Books • Skills for Success (Wolffe, 1999) • Pick Up Your Socks (Crary, 1990) • Self-esteem and Adjusting with Blindness (Tuttle & Tuttle, 1996) • Get Out of My Life…but first could you drive me and Cheryl to the Mall (Wolf, 1991)

  10. Resources • Articles • In the Darkness There Can Be Light: A Family’s Adaptation to a Child’s Blindness (JVIB, 4/05) • Effects of Visual Impairment, Gender, and Age on Self-determination (JVIB, 6/04)

  11. Resources • Internet sites • www.afb.org • www.careerconnect.org • www.braillebug.org • www.tsbvi.edu/recc/ • www.aph.org

  12. Resources • Organizations • American Foundation for the Blind • American Council of the Blind • National Federation of the Blind • NAPVI, NOPBC • APH, RFB&D, NLS, NBP, AT vendors

  13. Resources • People • STC presenters & participants • Successful blind & low vision adults • TVIs, COMs, VRCs, VRTs • Community-based leaders and group members (religious, secular, political…)

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