[blindkid] Fwd: RE: workshop sessions

[Carol Castellano]

Hi Everyone,

I am pleased to post here the workshop information and the full 
agenda for the Rehabilitation conference which I received from Dr. 
Eddie Bell and which has been under discussion on our list.  Hope you 
find these helpful.

Best wishes,
Carol

Carol Castellano
Parents of Blind Children-NJ
Director of Programs
National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
973-377-0976
carol_castellano at verizon.net
www.blindchildren.org
www.nopbc.org


>2:00 - 5:00 p.m.  Concurrent Sessions
>
>2:00-3:15 Session I
>
>Structured Discovery Cane Travel Methods and Principles. Jeff Altman, NOMC,
>Instructor, Nebraska Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired,
>Lincoln;  Darick Williamson, NOMC, Instructor, Louisiana Tech University,
>Ruston.

>Teachers, parents, and professionals are welcome to come and learn more
>about Structured Discovery Cane Travel (SDCT)T: its methods, principles, and
>techniques. NOMC-certified instructors will be on hand to provide one-to-one
>and small group lessons for novice, intermediate, and advanced cane users.
>Learn about becoming an O&M instructor, how the National Orientation and
>Mobility Assessment is conducted, and how to advocate for mobility services.
>Location: Salon 16
>
>Rehab Teaching and Access Technology. Eric Guillory, President, PIBE; and
>Jack Mendez, Director of Technology, Louisiana Center for the Blind, Ruston.
>
>This will be a hands-on workshop for professionals and consumers to learn
>about the profession of Rehabilitation Teaching for the blind, access
>technology, and consumer products. Participants will have hands-on lessons
>with IOS devices, Duxbury, and will be able to ask novice, intermediate, and
>advanced computer questions of experts in the field.
>Location: Salon 17
>
>
>3:30-5:00 Session II
>
>Structured Discovery Cane Travel Methods and Principles. Jeff Altman, NOMC,
>Instructor, Nebraska Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired,
>Lincoln;  Darick Williamson, NOMC, Instructor, Louisiana Tech University,
>Ruston.
>Teachers, parents, and Professionals are welcome to come and learn more
>about Structured Discovery Cane Travel (SDCT)T: its methods, principles, and
>techniques. NOMC-certified instructors will be on hand to provide one-to-one
>and small group lessons for novice, intermediate, and advanced cane users.
>Learn about becoming an O&M instructor, how the National Orientation and
>Mobility Assessment is conducted, and how to advocate for mobility services.
>Location: Salon 16
>
>Rehab Teaching and Access Technology. Eric Guillory, President, PIBE; and
>Jack Mendez, Director of Technology, Louisiana Center for the Blind, Ruston.
>
>This will be a hands-on workshop for professionals and consumers to learn
>about the profession of Rehabilitation Teaching for the blind, access
>technology, and consumer products. Participants will have hands-on lessons
>with IOS devices, Duxbury, and will be able to ask novice, intermediate, and
>advanced computer questions of experts in the field.
>Location: Salon 17
>
>
>
>Edward C. Bell, Ph.D., CRC, NOMC
>Director, Professional Development and Research
>Institute on Blindness
>Louisiana Tech University
>210 Woodard Hall
>PO Box 3158
>Ruston LA 71272
>Office: 318.257.4554            Fax: 318.257.2259 (Fax)         Skype:
>edwardbell2010
>ebell at latech.edu        www.pdrib.com
>**************************************************************
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>brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and
>died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
>-- Stephen Jay Gould
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