Learn about how to effectively teach sensorimotor skills to students with visual impairments that have difficulty with correct and consistent performance of orientation and mobility (O&M) skills. Sensorimotor skills can be taught effectively by directly facilitating activity in the sensorimotor areas of the brain responsible for a specific motion or activity.
At this workshop, participants will learn how to:
- Analyze problems in the performance of mobility techniques and identify related proprioceptive deficits.
- Perform a special technique designed to facilitate improved proprioceptive function at joints where decreased proprioceptive awareness is causing motor and mobility problems.
- Identify which student characteristics make them appropriate candidates for proprioceptive facilitation.
- Integrate newly developed proprioceptive awareness into improved skill performance in travel situations.
This session and materials costs are partially funded through state or federal grants.