Preparing Students for Uncontrolled Crossings
RESOURCES

Online programs and material about preparing students for uncontrolled crossings

• Self-Study Guide: Preparing Visually Impaired Students for Uncontrolled Crossings has all the information covered in this series of workshops
• Crossings with No Traffic Control: Teaching Concepts and Skills to Deal with Them - this APH program provides logical, sequenced modules developed for O&M specialists to use when teaching their students the concepts and skills outlined in this series of workshops.

Checklists and Worksheets

• CHECKLIST for Risk Analysis for Situations of Uncertainty can be used to help students assess the risk of Situations of Uncertainty.
• WORKSHEET for Assessing Uncontrolled Crossings can help the instructor keep track of data during assessment practice (crossing time, warning times and students' accuracy when comparing to crossing time, etc.)

Study Sheets

Part 1: Background and Basics
Part 2: Teaching and Assessing
Part 3: Maximizing Listening and Looking

Resources for Part 3: Maximizing Skills for Listening and Looking

• Training Eccentric Viewing for Mobility Purposes
  Helping people with central scotomas (such as macular degeneration) to find their best point of fixation and learn to use it, including suggestions for assessing and training to watch for vehicles and traffic signals.
• Using simulation to teach concepts of traffic movement
  Helping students (of any age) to understand traffic patterns by pretending to be a vehicle or pedestrian in simulated intersections
• Street-Crossing Workshop in New Brunswick, Canada
  Denise Guitar and Josée Martin organized group workshops for their teenaged students with visual impaiarments to learn street-crossing skills. Excerpts from videos showing them learning to listen to vehicles to determine what lanes they were in were shown in this webinar, and this webpage has videos showing them learning many of the other skills needed for uncontrolled crossings.
• Training to Scan and Glance with Restricted Visual Fields or Central Scotoma and Reduced Acuity
  Has all the videos used during the webinar regarding techniques and traning to people to scan with restricted visual fields or acuity loss, plus instructions and a video showing the training for scanning to find things with restricted visual field.
• Instructions for experiencing "quick vs. slow glancing" tactually as demonstrated in the webinar.

Transcripts of webinars Preparing Students for Uncontrolled Crossings:

• Part 1: Background and Basics
• Part 2: Teaching and Assessing
• Part 3: Maximizing Skills for Listening and Looking

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