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Teaching Children who are Visually Impaired in Physical Education

1) Description of Common Visual Impairments

2) Assessments:

Brockport Physical Fitness Test

Test of Gross Motor Development

Camp Abilities Brockport Activity Analysis Checklist

Oregon Project

3) Teaching techniques:

Instruction

Teaching children Deaf-Blind (PowerPoint show)

Tactile Modeling

Physical Guidance

4) How to treat a person who is blind

5) Sighted guiding technique

6) Running techniques (PowerPoint show)

7) Fitness activities

8) Inclusion Strategies (PowerPoint show)

Peer tutoring

Adapting Activities

9) Sports

Beep Baseball (PowerPoint show)

Goal ball

United States Association for Blind Athletes

10) Equipment companies

11) Camp Abilities Brockport web site

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Lauren Lieberman, Ph.D.

(585) 395-5361 (585) 395-2771 fax

LLIEBERM@BROCKPORT.EDU