A Step Forward

Surprise surprise friends! I am so excited to bring you this bonus episode. This episode is a replay of our workshop last Thursday, all about ways you can increase your learners’ independence with ease. You’ll be able to get a lot of takeaways from this episode that can help you increase your learners’ independence. Also, if you want CEU credits for this presentation or to get the visuals, you can register for it from the link below, until August 5.

Tune in now for all the goodies!

Welcome welcome, my friends! Are you struggling to increase your learners’ O&M skills? Have you ever wondered if you’re doing all the things correctly when it comes to increasing your learners’ independence? You can find out about all of that in this week’s episode.

Did you know that there are 3 essential things to take note of when it comes to increasing your learners’ O&M skills? We are diving right into those 3 essentials in this episode. I’m sure you may or may not already be doing all these things but perhaps you are not doing it quite right yet. I will be breaking down the 3 essential things with you and also share the ways you could do better to help your learners increase their O&M skills. Plus, by doing all of these things the right way, they could save you a lot of time.

Are you ready to do that? Head on now!

Welcome my friends to another episode of A Step Forward! I’m sure all of you know by now that our community consists of a bunch of quirky people. How do you think it would feel to have a partner doing just what you do and be able to be together forever?

This week’s episode is where you may just find out! I am so excited to bring you Becky Keller and Jimmy Morris, both who work as an Orientation and Mobility Specialist, who are married! Both of them are such an inspiration and are so knowledgeable that you wouldn’t mind third wheeling the whole time. Becky is currently the Lead Orientation and Mobility Instructor for the Virginia Rehabilitation Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Jimmy is currently working as an Orientation and Mobility Itinerant Instructor for the Virginia Department of the Blind and Visually Impaired.

Hello, hello my friends. It is the summer and I bet you’re excited! Because I am too! However in this episode, I am even more excited to be sharing my opinion with you on whether young learners should be given an NFB Cane.

You will get to hear all about my teaching experiences as well as what I learned from it. Most importantly, you will get to hear about my opinions on today’s topic, on whether we should teach them structured discovery along with this and also to blindfold them. Las but not least, I will also be sharing how I go about doing it, piece by piece.

Join us now so you don’t miss out!

It’s June you guys! The school year 2020-2021 is finally behind us as we approach summer. Exciting times!

I’m also excited to bring you guys this week’s episode where I will be sharing with you a few summer plan ideas that can help your learners increase their independence this summer. What’s more is that these ideas can be done by their caregivers! Isn’t that amazing? You’ll get to collaborate with your learners’ caregivers; which is also an effective way in order to create a significant impact in your learners’ lives and watch as your learners increase their independence.

Join us now and grab a hold of these ideas in the podcast!

Have you guys ever downloaded an app and realized how life-changing the app is? In today’s episode, we are talking about that one specific life-changing app, Soundscape.

We are super duper excited to be bringing in Jarnail Chudge and Amos Miller, both are app developers who worked for Microsoft Soundscape, bringing us a technology that provides support for accessibility, mobility, and empowering their users while also adding value to their lives in a sustainable way. Jarnail is a design and innovation architect in the Enable Group at Microsoft Technology and Research. Amos is a product strategist at Microsoft AI and Research. Both Jarnail and Amos have been working on the app, Soundscape, which utilises 3D spatial audio to create augmented audio reality, designed to be as descriptive as possible for the users, aiming to enhance their spatial awareness.

So excited for you to get more into this episode. Let’s head on right now!

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It’s the beginning of May you guys! With summer break coming soon, there’s this thing called summer slide that comes along with it. Summer slide is the loss of skills in students, due to the absence from school for 10-12 weeks. Studies have shown that students could lose up to an equivalent of 1 month’s worth of learning for not being in school for a period of time. But I’m here to let you guys know that I have a few tips that I will be sharing with you in this week’s episode in order to combat the summer slide for my students.

I have gathered a few ideas that are a combination of relationship building and data keeping strategies which I know work very well for me. You will be able to take away these ideas, as well as a few resources that I will be sharing with you in order to help your students.

Are you ready to face the summer slide? Join the podcast with me now!

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Are you feeling overwhelmed? Feeling like you have so much to get done but not sure if you could complete all of them? Don’t worry there, I’ve got your back!

This week’s episode is all about how we can strive for a more balanced life by deleting, automating, and delegating tasks in our work and even personal life. I will be sharing a few work and personal stories on how I do exactly that in order to be a better parent for my kids and also to take care of myself.

You will get to hear about how you can make better use of your time through time auditing, how you can better plan your lesson plans through proper planning time, and how you can set boundaries in your life in order to have more time and space for yourself.

Can’t wait to get to a balanced life? Join us now!

We are officially in April which is exciting! It’s actually my favorite month of the year because it is the month for us, teachers, O&M specialists, and VI specialists to have a proper look on how much our students have grown to be more independent. We could also help support them and guide them into taking more steps forward toward their goals.

In this week’s podcast, you will get ideas on how you can plan your lesson plans, making use of the themes for April which are Autism Awareness Month and Explore the World Month. These lesson plans could help to engage with your students more and develop their skills further.

Ready to grab ‘em? Join in now!

Do you ever feel scared to be in a leadership position or scared to advocate for you students? Maybe because you don’t feel heard, you don’t feel confident, or maybe you think that you may come off too strong and irritate people? Most of the time, being in this situation is never easy but that doesn’t mean that there’s no way to work around it.

In this week’s podcast, I will be sharing a few tips on how you can advocate or be a leader without pissing people off. These tips come from my own experience and also from the experts where you will learn through steps on what you can do when faced with different situations.

Sounds like what you need? Join now to find out!