AER International Conference 2010
Featuring the Orientation & Mobility Division Conference within a Conference
July 21-25, 2010 | Little Rock, Arkansas

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

8:00 am - 5:00 pm        MacFarland Seminar

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm        Opening Ceremony/General Speaker

9:00 pm - 10:00 pm      Opening Reception

Thursday, July 22, 2010

7:00am – 8:00 am       Breakfast

8:00 am – 9:30 am      90 minute concurrent sessions

8:00 am - 9:30 am       O&M Session: Certification, Licensure and Code of Ethics Updates

8:00 am – 12:00 pm     Education Curriculum, Itinerant Personnel, MDDB and Infant and Preschool division session

8:00 am – 12:00 pm   Low Vision Rehabilitation Division Education Session

9:00 am – 12:00 pm   VRT Education Session

9:45 am – 10:45 am    60 concurrent sessions

11:00 am – 12:00 pm  60 minute concurrent sessions

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm    Lunch

1:45 pm – 3:15 pm      Continuation of Education Curriculum, Itinerant Personnel, MDDB and Infant and Preschool division session

1:45 pm – 3:15 pm     Continuation of Low Vision Rehabilitation Education Session

1:45 pm – 3:15 pm     VRT Division Business Meeting and Discussion

1:45 pm – 3:15 pm     90 minute concurrent sessions

3:15 pm – 3:45 pm     Coffee break

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm     General Session

  

Friday, July 23, 2010

 

7:00 am – 8:00 am     Breakfast

8:00 am – 9:00 am     60 minute concurrent sessions

8:00 am – 12:00          Psychosocial Services/Aging Division Education Session

8:00 am – 9:00 am     O&M Medicare Update General Session

9:15 am – 10:45 am   90 minute concurrent sessions

11:00 am – 12:00 pm 60 minute concurrent sessions

12:15 pm – 1:45 pm   Awards Luncheon

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm     Continuation of Psychosocial Services/Aging Division Education Session

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm     90 minute concurrent sessions

3:45 pm – 5:15 pm     General Session

5:15 pm – 6:15 pm     Awards Reception

7:30 pm - 10:30 pm    O&M Division Awards Ceremony and Reception

Saturday, July 24, 2010

 

7:00 am – 8:00 am     Breakfast

8:00 am – 9:00 am     Poster Session

9:15 am – 11:15 am   General Session/International Panel

11:15 am – 12:00 pm  30 minute concurrent sessions

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm   Lunch

1:45 pm – 2:45 pm     60 minute concurrent session

1:45 pm – 5:30 pm     Information & Technology Division Education Session

1:45 pm – 5:30 pm     Administration Division Education Session
1:45 pm - 5:30 pm
     Personnel Preparation Division Education Session

2:45 pm – 3:15 pm     coffee break

3:15 pm –5:30 pm      O&M 50th Anniversary Celebration

3:15 pm - 4:15 pm      60 minute concurrent sessions

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm     60 minute concurrent sessions

6:00 pm – 10:00 pm   Reception at Clinton Library

Sunday, July 25, 2010

7:00 am – 8:00 am     Breakfast

8:00 am – 9:00 am     60 minute concurrent sessions

9:15 pm – 10:45 am   90 minute concurrent sessions

 

To view the presentations taking place during the meeting in an at-a-glance format, click on the division name.

Administration

Rehabilitation Services, BEP & Employment Services

Mulitple Disabilities & Deafblind

Psychosocial Services

Information & Technology

Low Vision Rehabilitation

Infant & Preschool

Orientation & Mobility

Education Curriculum

Vision Rehabilitation Therapy

Aging

Itinerant Personnel

Personnel Preparation

Other

Poster Session - Saturday, July 24
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Governor's Hall I & I
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FOCUS in Mathematics - Second Edition - Jeanette Wicker, Burt Boyer 
 
Training and Education to Improve Services and Environments for Seniors with Vision Impairments at HFHS Livonia Medical Center - Anne Riddering
 
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and the Instruction of Students with Visual Impairments and Blindness - Elizabeth Hartmann
 
Working through our fears. Visually impaired, blind, and deafblind students learn to collaborate with each other and staff to accomplish the goal of climbing the rock wall - Debbie Page, Carolyn Kerstetter, Tanny Hanahan 
 
The Preparation of Teachers, Including Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments, and other Professionals Utilizing a Distance Education Model in India - Rajesh Singh
 
Quality Programs for Students with Visual Impairments (QPVI): a process approach to program improvement - Nancy Toelle 
 
Take A Trip With The Itinerant Personnel Division Destination: National Agenda For Education of Children Goal 4 Caseloads - Joyce Strother, Marie Topp 
 
Pennsylvania's Approach to the National Agenda: The results of three surveys involving Special Education Supervisors, Service Providers in Visual Impairment, and Parents of Children with Visual Impairment. - Rebecca Renshaw, Debbie Holzapfel
 

Bigger and Better: The Lime Lighter Low Vision Music-Reading System - Bill McCann

Making the World Available To Students With DeafBlindness: A Successful Inclusionary Program - Lynn Murphy 
 
O&M Camp: New Adventures in Mobility - Ann Hegstrom 
 
O&M Scavenger hunt in Manhattan and Grand Central Terminal: High School students with Low Vision negotiate busy urban area - Cheryl Palgon, Cheri Aumueller 
 
Orientation and Mobility training for children with deafblindness and multi-handicaps; a developmental perspective. Educational history of approximately 60 students at Perkins School will determine correlation between developmental characteristics and outcome - Donna Dunham Bent, Veronika Bernstein 
 

The South Carolina Vision Education Partnership: Working Collaboratively to Promote High Quality Education for All Children Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired - Tina Herzberg, Marty McKenzie

Driving Club - Teens With Visual Impairments - Padma Rajagopal, Heather Platt 
 
Parachutes for Paraprofessionals: The Hadley/USU Distance Education Degree Program for Paraprofessionals - Judy Matsouka
 
5 Ws (Who,What,When,Where,Why) and 1 Big How: The Business Model for Job Placement. - Al Farias
 
Gifted and Talented Education for the Blind and Visually Impaired - Chris Wilks
 
Summer Transition and Employment Program (S.T.E.P.) - Kevin Hollinger 
 
Project H.I.R.E.: Online Employment Preparation Programs for High School and College Graduates Seeking Employment - Michele McDonnall, Adele Crudden, BJ Lejeune, William Sansing, Martin Giesen