• Vision Impaired Services

    Vision staff provide direct and consultative services to students with visual impairments. Vision staff instruct students at the school in which they reside. The following is a list of services and/or activities which have been provided for students with vision impairments and other students with special needs in the Bismarck Public Schools. The list is not exhaustive and the activities may not be in isolation from other school personnel and related services.

    • Orientation and Mobility Training (white cane travel, routes around home, residential, and commercial travel needs)
    • Braille instruction in literary, Nemeth math code, and music
    • Vision Efficiency Training (assist in training of eye motor skills for efficient focusing and reading, when doctor prescribed)
    • Concept Development (teaching concepts such as: around, up, over, left, right, next, etc. without sight)
    • Keyboarding instruction and computer operation (keyboarding instruction in early elementary grades along with speech access and enlarging adaptation to computers)
    • Social Skills Training (facial expressions, manners, friendships, how to handle frustration)
    • Daily Living Skill Training (cooking, cleaning, shopping, handling money, dressing, etc.)
    • Parent Training (expectations of child, braille, mobility, how to include the child at home,)
    • Training in Gross and Fine Motor Skills (running, skipping, cutting, signatures for blind)
    • Evaluations (functional vision and others)
    • Teacher Consultation (train teachers on student's adaptations needed)
    • Selective Vision Screenings
    •  Training in Organizational Skills (strategies are taught for organization in all aspects of life)
    • Material Adaptations (materials adapted into braille, tactual, large print, and audio)
    • Provide low and high tech assistive technology (assist in adapting computer tech for child)
    • Liaison among medical profession, parents, and school
    • Vocational Training (Assist in work experiences, mentoring, job shadow, and summer employment)
    • Collaborating with outside agencies for transitions

     For more information about vision services, contact your local school or the Special Education Department at 701-323-4028.