Workshops/Seminars for Teaching to Cross With No Stop Sign or Traffic Signal

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Schedule of upcoming seminar/workshops with registration information
List of topics covered in the seminar/workshop
Instructions if you have already registered for a workshop
Comments from Workshop attendees
Self-Study Guide: Preparing Visually Impaired Students to Assess and Cross Streets with No Stop Sign or Traffic Signal

Early Adopters:

"incorporate (and/or develop!) teaching tools and strategies to prepare students to recognize
situations of uncertainty for gap judgment, and analyze and cross streets with no traffic control."

extensive checklists have been developed to facilitate our instruction of these skills and concepts;
people are learning to use their hearing to judge how far away are the approaching vehicles;
strategies of scanning for cars are being refined; and
teaching tools are being adapted to introduce these concepts to young children and people with brain injury.

Outline of topics:

What's going on here?
- Situations of uncertainty -- what are they? How can you recognize them?
- Research -- what did we learn from sitting in lawnchairs and listening for traffic?
- What does "quiet" mean?
- How does this change what we teach our students, and are you committed?
Teaching students to:
- recognize Situations of Uncertainty
- Analyze risks and make decisions; Alternatives
- determine crossable gaps (when that is possible)
Practice makes perfect!
- Outside, experience teaching tools at streets
Application
- Brainstorm goals for instruction
- Scenarios and examples

Seminar Schedule

dona@sauerburger.org

Sites of former workshops:

Kansas City: February 20, 2010
Denver, Colorado (Colorado Department of Education): April 30 - May 1, 2010
Hines, Illinois (IAOMS / Illinois AER Chapter): June 5, 2010
Laguna Woods, California: August 16, 2010
Manhattan, New York: September 25, 2010
Kalamazoo, Michigan: October 14-15, 2010
Louisville, Kentucky: October 17, 2010
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: October 23, 2010
Columbia, Missouri (MO AER Chapter meeting): November 5, 2010
Phoenix, Arizona: November 11 and 14, 2010
Salt Lake City, Utah (Utah AER Chapter meeting): November 19, 2010
Yorktown Heights, New York (Guiding Eyes for the Blind with Guide Dog Foundation and The Seeing Eye): December 15, 2010
Corpus Christi, Texas (SWOMA conference): January 13, 2011
Tampa, Florida: February 12, 2011
Birmingham, Alabama (University of Alabama O&M program): February 19, 2011
Phoenix, Arizona: February 27, 2011
Greenville, South Carolina: March 5, 2011
San Francisco, California: March 20, 2011
Halifax, Nova Scotia (CNIB; APSEA; Dept of Ed in New Brunswick): March 29, 2011
Boston, Massachusetts (Assn of MA Educators of Students with VI): April 1, 2011
Portland, Maine (Maine Division for the Blind & Visually Impaired): April 5, 2011
Portland, Oregon (Oregon AER): April 11, 2011
Eugene, Oregon (Oregon AER): April 13, 2011
Ashland, Oregon (Oregon AER): April 16, 2011
Anchorage, Alaska (Alaska AER): April 20, 2011
Columbus, Ohio (Ohio State University O&M program): May 14, 2011
London, Ontario (Canadian National Institute for the Blind): June 14, 2011
Washington, DC (Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind): July 21, 2011
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: September 17, 2011
San Rafael, California (Guide Dogs for the Blind): September 27, 2011
Trois-Rivieres, Quebec (Centre de Readaptation InterVal): September 30, 2011
Kansas City, Missouri (Alphapointe Association for the Blind): October, 15, 2011
Seattle, Washington (State of Washington Dept. of Services for the Blind): November 7-8, 2011

Instructions to workshop registrants

When you come ... what to bring?

Be prepared to go outside for part of the workshop.
If possible, bring a stopwatch (your cell phone may have one that you can use). If you can't get one, don't worry, I will bring a few to spare.
It is not necessary to use a blindfold or a cane to participate fully in all the activities, but you can bring them if you prefer.

Preparation?

Self-Study Guide

Section 1, page 8 and page 13;
Section 2 (11 pages);
Section 4 (12 pages).

Join me and learn to lead outside activities?

2 photos each show two people, one is looking at her stopwatch and giving the other a 'thumbs-down' in one photo, and a thumbs-up in the other.

2 photos show two people wearing occluders at the edge of a street with 4 lanes coming from the left, each photo with a car in one of those lanes. Dona is behind them and holding up fingers indicating whether the car is in the first, second, or third lane.

Photo shows two people at a quiet 2-lane street where a car arrives. Dona is behind them.

Photo shows Dona holding a small tape recorder and standing in a residential street talking to two people who are standing on the curb.

Meet with me for an hour or so after the workshop. We will debrief the workshop experience and go over a checklist so you can do it with your fellow O&Mers at home.
Come before the workshop for about 2-3 hours to experience the activities yourself and go over a checklist of items to cover. Then, during the workshop, those of you who are comfortable doing it would lead (or help lead) a group in the outside activities.

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