2025 CDE Seminar on Orientation and Mobility

IN-PERSON at the Adams 12 Conference Center - 1500 E. 128th Avenue, Thornton, CO 80241


Date: April 24, 2025    Time: 8:00 - AM - 3:00 PM


Title and Description: Tactile Graphics for Colorado O&M Specialists

Tactile graphics are especially important in helping students who are blind or visually impaired to develop O&M skills. We will discuss the foundational skills and strategies that students must use to successfully read and apply the information in a tactile graphic.


Date: April 25, 2025    Time: 8:00 - AM - 5:00 PM


Title and Description Morning Session: Meaningful Orientation & Mobility for Students with Extensive Support Needs

Students with visual impairment and additional disabilities are often the most challenging students on a caseload. This workshop will help you better understand this population and how to serve them. We will discuss the characteristics of students with learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, autism, and traumatic brain injury, along with specific ideas for instruction. A case study of a complex student will provide concrete examples of how to put the ideas into practice and the positive impact of instruction.


Title and Description Afternoon Session: Cane to Canine: Getting Ready for a Guide Dog

The O&M and guide dog domains have become more closely connected over recent years. As O&M skills are fundamental for guide dog travel, O&M specialists play a crucial role in identifying and preparing potential guide dog travelers. Instruction in this area, however, is often only a small part of an O&M instructor preparation program. This workshop will help practitioners better understand what guide dogs do, who makes a good candidate for a guide dog, and what skills to work on with a client to help them be ready to work with a guide dog. Attendees will leave with specific lesson ideas, resources for O&M guide dog preparation courses nationwide, and hands-on practice with Juno (i.e., simulated guide dog travel).


Audience: Registration is limited to Colorado O&M Specialists or O&M Specialists-in-university training who reside in Colorado.


We expect that each accepted participant complete a follow-up survey to determine the implementation status of the training content.


Costs: There is no registration cost for this training. The course will be offered for one graduate semester hour and tuition costs for this credit per the established rate with the University of Northern Colorado. It is expected to be approximately $65 for the university credit.


Registration will close 2 weeks ahead of the training, on April 10, 2025.

Please use your District/BOCES/AU email to register. Priority will be given to educators and staff working in Colorado public K-12 school districts, BOCES, and partner agencies.

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Registration is limited to Colorado O&M Specialists or O&M Specialists-in-university training who reside in Colorado.

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Note for TVIs and Braillists:

If you are NOT an O&M Specialist, you will only be able to attend the April 24th session.

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Electronic handouts will be provided ahead of the training for you to download, print, and/or emboss. Please indicate if you require an accommodation(s) for this training event.

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If other, please describe. CDE will make every effort to provide the unique accommodations you request, but we cannot guarantee them.

Notice

If you have registered and are then unable to attend the training, we ask for at least a 72-hour notice of cancellation notice, so that CDE can be proactive with canceling requested accommodation services ahead of the training. Thank you!

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I understand that I have the option of attending one or both days of the training. Please note that if you arrive late and leave early, we cannot prorate your training certificate and you cannot earn CDE/ACVREP clock hours for the day(s) you attend on a partial-attendance basis.

Travel Stipend Information:

We hope to offer lodging reimbursement for participants who are traveling over 100 miles one way from their home location to the training site. The lodging costs must be paid by the participant and will be refunded up to $215 (plus tax), the conference rate, per night based on available funds. We will be reserving a room block and will send out information about making a reservation at this hotel as soon as it is finalized, and we know who will qualify for the room block. Travel reimbursement is only for CO O&M Specialists working in a Colorado public school and who reside in Colorado. They will not be offered to personnel in university training programs.


To qualify for lodging reimbursements:

  • Traveling fewer than 50 miles from your home location to the training site you do not qualify for any lodging reimbursement.
  • If you are traveling 51-100 miles from your home location to the training site, you qualify for one (1) night of lodging reimbursement, if you attend both days of the training. This would be for the night of April 24 only.
  • If you are traveling over 140 miles from your home location to the training site, you qualify for two (2) nights of lodging reimbursement. This would be for the nights of April 23 and 24th.


First priority will go to individuals coming from the farthest distances who meet the travel reimbursement criteria.


To receive reimbursement, you MUST provide a MapQuest/Google Map from your home to the training site that confirms mileage each way (rounding up or down) and provide a hotel invoice with your name on it and evidence of a zero balance.


All reimbursement requests must be approved before the training. If you request lodging reimbursement, we will follow up to confirm approval or denial of the request. If you are coming from a distance with a colleague, we ask that you book a room with double occupancy to help protect our finite dollars for helping more people with lodging.

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If you are eligible for lodging reimbursement, do you have a colleague you would like to share your room with, please type in their name? It would be very appreciated if participants who know each other would be willing to share a double hotel room. This is, quite frankly, an expectation for those coming from a distance as a team.

**Registration will close on April 10, 2025.

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