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Tag: orientation and mobility

Visual Disabilities wins federal grant to train specialists to support adults

January 15, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, SEED

NIU’s Department of Special and Early Education long has enjoyed U.S. Department of Education grants to train professionals to work with people who are blind or visually disabled. For more than 40 consecutive years, those federal dollars have supported NIU’s preparation of

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Visual Disabilities program students try serving as guide dog leaders – and dogs

May 15, 2019 Mark McGowan enewsletter, SEED

Visitors to Graham Hall, whether inside or outside, are familiar with the site of students wearing sleep-shade blindfolds and navigating hallways, stairwells and sidewalks with white canes. For two days each year, however, those canes are replaced with human beings – playing

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Wayfinding: CATIS students navigate campus with latest assistive technology

June 13, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, SEED

Modern assistive technology that helps people who are blind to navigate the world is nothing short of amazing. But it’s not perfect – yet. Try traversing a college campus, for example, through the web of winding sidewalks and grassy expanses. Even the

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Vision Program alum rekindles love of ice skating with Chicago Blackhawks Blind Hockey team

October 10, 2017 Mark McGowan Alumni, enewsletter, SEED

Kevin Allison had spent most of his young life on the ice in pursuit of one dream. “I was always a figure skater. I was always training. I was getting my degree at the same time – my undergraduate degree – but

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Visual Impairments grad student hopes to improve lives, system

August 3, 2017 Mark McGowan enewsletter, SEED

When Lizzy Koster graduated from Hendrix College in Arkansas, she took a job as an assistant at a political consulting firm. It didn’t last long. “Politics wasn’t what I imagined it would be,” says Koster, an NIU College of Education graduate student

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