These are convenient, accessible and can be accessed at anytime.
These sessions are presented by RIDBC staff and external experts in the field.
All of these sessions also can be used for accreditation purposes. Each course will clearly state what accreditation is available for each course.
Top Tips Series – Classroom strategies for students with vision loss
Need to know more about how to set up your classroom to ensure that your student with vision impairment (VI) has access to learning materials and experiences?
Top Tips Series – Listening Hierarchy
Awareness of the Listening Hierarchy may help you to decode the behaviours you are seeing in your classroom by students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing or with another disability, students who use English as a Second Language, students from low socio-economic backgrounds or students who have experienced trauma.
Top Tips Series – Instructional Strategies for children with vision impairment
Task analysis is a useful instructional strategy when teaching students with vision impairment the Expanded Core Curriculum (ECC). Task analysis refers to identifying the steps involved in completing a task or activity, and analysing the skills required to complete each step.
Top Tips Series – Classroom Acoustics
Classroom acoustics describes the listening properties of your classroom, and the influence this has on the learning of a student with hearing loss.
Supporting Teenagers with hearing loss – a contract of support
This webinar will identify the needs of teenagers and the supports they require and how those working with them can met those needs in a practical way.
Looking at play through a different lens
This webinar investigates the different aspects of play that children who are deaf or hard of hearing need to acquire to make and keep friends. It focuses on getting along with others, staying calm with other and being responsible for our behaviour also how to share space with others.
Understanding visual function to optimise functional vision in children with CVI
Cerebral vision impairment (CVI) has emerged to be one of the most prominent causes of vision impairment in children in the developed world. The spectrum of CVI creates anomalies in the quality of vision seen in conjunction with cognitive visual dysfunction.
Early Childhood Development and implication of vision impairment
The years from conception through birth to eight years of age are critical to the complete and healthy cognitive, emotional and physical growth of children. This webinar explores early childhood development, the role of vision and visual development and then the implications for a child's development due to their vision impairment. Duration of this (more…)
Education Inclusion for children with vision impairment
This webinar provides participants with strategies to assist in including children with vision impairment in your class or community setting.
Orientation and Mobility Package
This package contains all 12 webinars and is a great introduction to Orientation and Mobility. It covers a large variety of topics and disscues the role of O&M specialists, tips and techniques, technology, students with multiple disabilities and lots more.
