[Rehab] Register now: 19th Rehabilitation and O&M Conference

[Edward Bell]

Registration is now open!

 

National Blindness Professionals Certification Board presents:

Contemporary Issues in Rehabilitation and Education 
For the Blind

NINETEENTH ANNUAL REHABILITATION 
AND ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY CONFERENCE



First Cyber Conference

Held Via Zoom Attendance

 

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

9:00 am - 7:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time


Come and join us! Once again, this year's conference will be action packed
with a variety of new speakers, topics, and hands-on events. But this year,
for the first time, all conference sessions will be held online via the zoom
video conferencing platform.

To maximize the quality of conference participation we are asking that all
participants have access to either the desktop Zoom application or the Zoom
iPhone app. You do not need an account, but you are encouraged to have at
least the free account, which you can sign up for
<https://zoom.us/freesignup/> Here.

 

Presentations and breakouts including:

*       Morning General Session filled with thought provoking and
inspirational speakers

*       Hear from employed blind professionals on how they implement
Structured Discovery in different teaching areas

*       Learn about technology and its place in consumer's learning

*       Learn about working with students who have secondary disabilities

*       Learn where to find new material and secrets to running a dynamic
philosophy discussion.

*       Share ideas and network in multiple rehabilitation disciplines,
including Braille, home management, cane travel, and access technology.

*       Bring Structured Discovery alive when Face-to-Face is not an option

 

Schedule:

(Note: all times are Eastern Daylight Time)

9:00 -Conference Begins

9:00 - 12:00 -General session

1:00 - 5:00- Interactive Breakout Sessions

5:00 - 7:00 pm-Happy Hour Mix and Mingle

 

 

The registration fee for this online conference is $25 for both
professionals and students and entitles you to all general and breakout
sessions, continuing education points, and access to the recorded conference
sessions.

 

 <https://nbpcb.org/members/er.php?eid=416> Register Here

 

 

Visit the National Blindness Professionals Certification Board website to
learn more about a career in changing lives:

 <http://www.nbpcb.org> http://www.nbpcb.org

 

 

 

 

 

Edward C. Bell, Ph.D., CRC, NOMC, Director, 

Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness

Louisiana Tech University

600 Mayfield Ave / 210 Woodard Hall

PO Box 3158

Ruston LA 71272

Office: 318.257.4554                      Fax: 318.257.2259 

 <mailto:ebell at latech.edu> ebell at latech.edu  www.pdrib.com

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"I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of  Einstein's
brain than in the near certainty that people of equal  talent have lived and
died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

-- Stephen Jay Gould