Adaptive skills are strategies that can be used to help persons who are blind or vision impaired complete tasks using alternative means. Service providers in the field of blindness and low vision will discover practical strategies for dealing with everyday tasks. Topics covered include using appliances, labeling, eating, pouring liquids, caring for personal hygiene, and much more.

This course is available for CRC, ACVREP, and NBPCB credit.

Course Objectives:

1. Recognize the importance of an Independent Living Assessment.
2. Identify products, devices, strategies, and techniques that people who are blind or visually impaired commonly use.
3. Identify resources for providing adaptive skills training for people with vision loss.

The following are recommended screen reader and browser combinations.

Mac: Voiceover with the latest version of Safari,

PC: JAWS or NVDA with Firefox.

Note that currently, course quizzes are not functioning properly for Microsoft screen reader users with Chrome or Edge.

The course shows a start date, but this is simply the date the course was made available to the public. They are self-paced. So, there is not an end date. You can enroll at any time.

This course was developed by the National Research & Training Center on Blindness and Low Vision (NRTC) at Mississippi State University. We are the only national center funded to conduct research related to employment for people with blindness or low vision, and training and technical assistance for the federal Older Individuals who are Blind program. As a national center of excellence, we offer resources on a variety of topics for service providers, businesses, and persons with vision loss on our websites:

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