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Introduction to the 3 rd Edition of TAPS

Introduction to the 3 rd Edition of TAPS . AER O&M Conference New Orleans, December 13, 2013 Rona Pogrund, Ph.D., COMS Debra Sewell, TVI Debra Sewell. Four Parts of TAPS. Part 1: The Curriculum Part 2: Comprehensive Initial and Ongoing Evaluation Part 3: Appendices

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Introduction to the 3 rd Edition of TAPS

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  1. Introduction to the3rd Edition of TAPS AER O&M Conference New Orleans, December 13, 2013 Rona Pogrund, Ph.D., COMS Debra Sewell, TVI Debra Sewell

  2. Four Parts of TAPS Part 1: The Curriculum Part 2: Comprehensive Initial and Ongoing Evaluation Part 3: Appendices Part 4: Supplement: Street Crossings for Travelers Who Are Visually Impaired

  3. What’s New in Part 1: The Curriculum • Several new goals have been added • Additional objectives have been added to many of the goals • Additional teaching strategies have been included for many of the goals and objectives • Terminology has been updated • Additional information has been added for teaching students with multiple impairments • Functional Mobility Tasks have been updated

  4. What’s New: Terminology • O&M instructor to specialist • Sighted guide technique to guide technique • Used person first language • Assessment to evaluation • Multiple disabilities to multiple impairments • Hand-over-hand to hand-under-hand • Sighted assistance to assistance • Support canes to one-handed support devices • Special transit to paratransit

  5. Using the Curriculum for Program Development • Building Rapport • Evaluating the Student • Planning Instruction • Planning the Lesson • Instructing the Student • Reinforcement • Ongoing Evaluation

  6. Data Collection Sheet

  7. What’s New: Students with Multiple Impairments • Added new sections • Purposeful Movement • Active Learning • CVI • Expanded ambulatory devices and made an additional section with goals and objectives

  8. Ambulatory Devices Section • An Ambulatory Devices section has been added that includes: • Wheelchairs (including a checklist) • Walkers • Crutches • One-handed support devices

  9. What’s New in Part 2: Evaluation Booklet • Comprehensive Initial and Ongoing Evaluation • Still available in print booklet form • Available in electronic format (disc) to be used on multiple platforms (for example iPad, Kindle, laptops)

  10. Items to be included on the disc  • Evaluations • Comprehensive Initial and Ongoing Evaluation • Wheelchair Skills Checklist • Purposeful Movement Behaviors • O&M Assessment: Early Years of Birth through Three Years O&M • Data Sheet • O&M Terms in Spanish • Evaluation Report Template • Street Crossing and Intersection Charts from Part 4

  11. NewPart 3: Appendices • New Appendices have been added: • Resources for Explaining the Benefits of O&M • Legal Issues in O&M • Research Studies in O&M Supporting Evidence-Based Practices • Problem Solving

  12. NewPart 3: Appendices (cont.) • O&M Strategies for Working with Students with Deafblindness and Other Communication Challenges • Mobility Terms in Spanish • O&M Evaluation Report Template and Sample Reports

  13. Appendices - revised • Some appendices were significantly revised: • Early O&M Evaluations • Adaptive Mobility Devices • Cane Selection • O&M Instruction with Students Using Dog Guides • Promoting Movement • Using Tactile Maps as an Orientation Aid

  14. Yoga

  15. Appendices – revised (cont.) • Assistive Technology Used in O&M (formerly ETDs) • Personal Safety in the Community (formerly Outdoor Safety) • Alternative Indoor Activities • Music Motivation (formerly Motivational Mobility Melodies) • Evaluation and Training of Visual Efficiency Skills

  16. O&M Evaluation Report Template and Samples • A templateand several sample reports are included in this appendix • The template contains the following areas: • Student information • Visual information • Medical information • Additional information (e.g., literacy medium, optical devices, interview results) • Evaluation results • Recommendations

  17. New Part 4 – Supplement: Street Crossings for Travelers Who Are Visually Impaired by Wendy Scheffers and Linda Myers • Introduction • Intersection Analysis • Street Crossing Timings • Scanning to Monitor Traffic • Additional Tools • References

  18. Why Part 4 Was Developed Applying the information in Street Crossings for Travelers Who Are Visually Impaired helps travelers lower the inherent risk in crossing streets. Travelers who learn and apply this information will be safer and better able to travel independently in familiar and unfamiliar areas with less need for mobility instruction in the future.

  19. Example • Crossing a channelized right-turn lane – corner to right-turn island, right-turn island to corner

  20. Contact Information Rona Pogrund, Ph.D., COMS Associate Professor Texas Tech University rona.pogrund@ttu.edu 512-206-9213 Debra Sewell Curriculum Coordinator Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired sewelld@tsbvi.edu 512-206-9183

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