Overview
S.O.A.R. into Home Maintenance! Using no, low and high technologies to maintain your home focuses on the Home Maintenance domain of instruction within a summer residential program for youth who are legally blind. Our lead instructor will cover the spectrum of "no, low and high tech" solutions to maintain your home based on individual preferences, skills, finances and access to instruction. We will explore how an individual with a visual impairment can utilize cleaning products, access label instructions, create tactile and audio labels, engage a circuit box, set up and control vacuums and other cleaning devices, and so much more.
Learning Objectives
- Describe eight instructional domains of instruction for adapted daily living within a summer residential training program for transition-aged youth.
- Compare three levels of technologies available for adapted daily living within your home and living space.
- Discuss resources to evaluate or secure tools and devices across three levels of technology for adapted daily living within your home.
Primary & Secondary Strands
Vision & Hearing Technologies; Education & Learning: Early Intervention - 12/Higher Education
Target Audience
- Accessibility Professional
- Administrators
- Caregivers
- Consumers/Individuals with Disabilities
- Disability Services
- Educators
- Family Members
- Occupational Therapists
- Paraprofessionals
- Special Education Educators
- Teachers of the Visually Impaired
- Transition Coordinator
- Visual Impairment Specialists
Experience Level
Introductory
Primary Life Cycle Addressed
Elementary - Secondary (K-12); Higher Education; Adult/Senior
Session Delivery Format
In-person presentation with live-stream
Course Schedule
This course was given at the ATIA 2023 Conference on Friday, February 3 from 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM (EST)
Continuing Education Credits
For Satisfactory Completion and Continuing Education information, please visit: ATIA Learning Center CEUs
This course is offered for the following CE Provider Credits:
ACVREP; AOTA; CRC; IACET
For: 0.10 CEU Units or 1.0 CEU Hours.
End date of current CRC CEUs offering: March 19, 2025
Please refer to the CRC Transition & Workplace Accessibility Series (2024-2025) page for further information on how to submit your CRC CEUs for this course to CRCC.
Speaker/s:
Jennifer Reeder, M.S. Ed., TVI, COMS
Lighthouse for the Blind - St. Louis, Home Maintenance Instructor
Biography
Jenn Reeder is a Teacher of the Visually Impaired, ACVREP Certified Orientation & Mobility Specialist, and Learning Behavior Specialist I. She teaches at Peoria Public School District 150 and is a COMS for the Illinois Bureau of Blind Services. She is the Home Maintenance Instructor for the Summer O&M and Adapted Living Resource Program (S.O.A.R.) with the Lighthouse for the Blind - St. Louis. She graduated from Illinois State University in 2015 with a Bachelors Degree in Special Education specializing in Low Vision and Blindness and graduated from Northern Illinois University in 2018 with a Masters Degree in Special Education specializing in Orientation & Mobility.
Relevant Financial Relationship: Yes
Salary from employment
Relevant Non-Financial Relationship: No
Kevin Hollinger, M.A., M.Ed
Lighthouse for the Blind - St. Louis, COMS, CATIS, TVI
Biography
Kevin Hollinger lives in Defiance, Missouri with his awesome wife and three kids. His family loves hunting, fishing and their church. Kevin's maintained a full-time position for 23 years as a TVI, COMS, and CATIS in the school district he graduated from just a few years ago. He is also the Director of the S.O.A.R. program for the Lighthouse for the Blind in St. Louis. Kevin began with a degree in Communication Disorders then moved into Special Education then on to TVI then on to O&M then on to AT and he is not sure what comes next though he is pretty sure it is not more classes or certification exams.
Relevant Financial Relationship: Yes
Salary from employment
Relevant Non-Financial Relationship: No