Adjustment to Blindness Training (ATB)

Orientation and Mobility Training (O & M)

Definition

The skills a person who is blind or low vision uses to move safely, navigate, and purposefully through the environment. This includes knowing where you are and where you want to go, safely walking or transportation, understanding special awareness of surroundings, knowledge of directional language, and recognizing landmarks using tactile and auditory feedback.

Standards and Certification Requirements

SSB intends to ensure a specified level of quality in services purchased for customers in the area of travel training. SSB will require that any community partner offering O & M training meet one of the two levels of expertise.

Rehabilitation Teaching

Definition

The educational process that prepares a consumer to perform daily living tasks safely and independently in any environment.

Standards and Certification Requirements

It is the intent of SSB to ensure a specific level of quality for services provided to our customers in the area of rehabilitation teaching. There are three levels of expertise we recognize.

Braille

Definition

A skill taught to people who are blind, low vision, or DeafBlind to help them read and write independently. It is an educational process that prepares a consumer to perform daily living tasks safely and independently in any environment.

Assistive Technology Training

Low Vision Training

Independent Living Training