Orientation & mobility assessment study
guide (domain 1 Organization of O&M)
Tommie
What is the code of ethics for ACVREP - (correct answer) -1. Student, community profession,
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colleagues, employment practices
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AER - (correct answer) -1. Association for the education and rehabilitation of the blind
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ASHA - (correct answer) -1. American speech language and hearing association
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2. Association for speech and language
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How did C. BLEDSOE influence the advancement of the O&M profession - (correct answer) -1.
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Wrote the chapter of O&M books
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How did Dorothy Harrison Ustes influence the advancement of the O&M profession - (correct
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answer) -1. Mother of the dog guide movement
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2. She established Seeing Eye in 1929
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3. The first key figure was her first student
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4. Second key was "Uncle Willie" (dog fancier and retired business man)
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5. Third was associated was geneticist named Jack Humphrey
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How did Richard Hoover influence the advancement of the O&M profession - (correct answer) -1.
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Father of orientation and mobility
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2. developed the two-point touch technique
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3. felt that the key to getting his technique used was 300 caned
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a. A1 priority was given to cane making
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4. Trained cane technique at Valley Forge
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Dr Robert Erwin - (correct answer) -1. Champion for the public education of the blind
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, How did Father Carroll influence the advancement of the O&M profession - (correct answer) -1.
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Founder of the conference
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2. Blind priest
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3. Wrote blindness what is and what it does
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4. Former chaplain at Avon
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How did Father Carroll influence the advancement of the O&M profession continued 1 - (correct
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answer) -5. He tried to establish an O&M group or association
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6. He convinced Erwin and Vail to travel to the different blind centers and look at them
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How did Father Carroll influence the advancement of the O&M profession continued 2 - (correct
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answer) -7. He took the initiative by asking 51 specific questions with respect to the program
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8. The report pushed for coordination of blinded vets affairs and for a basic rehabilitation center
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How did Boston College advance the O&M profession - (correct answer) -1. First college grant that
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had a master's degree for O&M
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How did the Gloucester conference advance the O&M profession - (correct answer) -1. The first
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time that they had all the doctors and rehabilitation specialist get together to agree that they
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needed to discuss the dangers of untrained people calling themselves mobility specialist and the
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need for formal training
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How did Comstock report advance the O&M - (correct answer) -1. 1961 AFB set out a study to get
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an organization to administer accreditation
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2. NAC national accreditation committee
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3. The initial certification standards established two levels of certification- provisional and
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permanent
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4. 1973 three new undergraduate prep programs were developes
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How did the Valley Forge advance the O&M profession - (correct answer) -1. Col. Greer called the
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program "foot travel"
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2. Idea of the light cane
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3. Richard Hoover program
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How did the Valley Forge advance the O&M profession continued 1 - (correct answer) -4. figured
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out that the first thing they needed to know how to do was to get around in their environment
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