Webinars From the American Foundation for the Blind eLearning Center

Welcome to the AFB eLearning Center Webinar page. Here you will find links to purchase and log into our collection of webinar offerings. We encourage you to check back often, as new webinars are being added regularly.

• Learning to Listen Series
• Low Vision Technology Webinar Series
• Aging and Vision Loss Webinar Series
• Other Webinars From AFB

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Learning to Listen Webinar Series

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This series of six webinars will feature the authors of Learning to Listen, Listening to Learn who will give more in-depth information about selected topics in the book. The cost of the series is $99; individual webinars are $25 each which may be purchased as the dates are announced. All the webinars will be available through AFB's eLearning Center.

Exploring the Link between Listening and Literacy Skill Development

Presenter: Liz Barclay

This session demonstrates the link between listening and learning and reviews strategies that professionals may use with their students to develop both listening and literacy skills. It includes essential aspects of listening and a special Q&A session with Liz Barclay, the editor of Learning to Listen/Listening to Learn.

Approved by ACVREP for 1 hour of continuing education credit

Listening and Learning for Students with Additional Disabilities

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Presenter: Sandy Staples

Students who have visual impairments and additional disabilities need to be engaged in meaningful learning experiences that use touch and hearing to gain information, respond to other people, move within their environment, and occupy their leisure time. This webinar focuses on strategies for creating environments and experiences that support learning to listen, and teaching strategies that target listening skill development.

Approved by ACVREP for 1 hour of continuing education credit

The Relationship of Language Comprehension and Listening

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Presenter: Laura Denton

Difficulty with language comprehension strongly affects a student's ability to listen. This webinar covers the characteristics of receptive language difficulties as they affect listening and presents strategies to promote improved listening.

Approved by ACVREP for 1 hour of continuing education credit

Listening Guidelines for English Language Learners

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Presenter: Madeline Milian

This webinar provides an overview of important factors that need to be taken into consideration when educating students who are blind or visually impaired and are learning English as a new language. The sequence of listening skills as it relates to learning a new language is discussed.

Approved by ACVREP for 1 hour of continuing education credit

Listening and Technology

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Presenters: Jerry Kuns and Stephanie Herlich

Developing listening skills for academics is a learned process that takes training and reinforcement. This webinar provides the foundation for finding appropriate tools for students, learning the essential skills needed for efficient listening, and understanding the wide variety of audio devices available to students.

Approved by ACVREP for 1 hour of continuing education credit

Listening Skills for Orientation and Mobility: Teaching Use of Auditory Space Perception

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Presenters: Maya Delgado Greenberg and Wendy Scheffers Learn how travelers can use listening skills to determine properties of silent objects and space through auditory space perception, including echolocation. Teaching strategies for auditory space perception are presented, including how to use common household objects to demonstrate the properties of sound and how to select appropriate learning environments.

Approved by ACVREP for 1 hour of continuing education credit

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Low Vision Technology Webinar Series

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Note: With the purchase of this series you receive a special 15% discount on the book Assistive Technology for Students Who are Blind or Visually Impaired: A Guide to Assessment written by the presenter, Ike Presley, with co-author Frances Mary D'Andrea. It provides a comprehensive overview of today’s assistive technology translated into clear, non-technical terms and includes assessment processes, forms, and advice for writing program recommendations. You will receive a coupon code after you complete your order.

Webinar 1: Overview of Technology for People with Low Vision

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This webinar provides an introduction to the wide variety of technologies available to people with low vision for reading and writing. Participants are introduced to low and high tech tools for accessing printed information at near and distant, electronic information, and writing tools.

Approved by ACVREP and CRCC for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit

Webinar 2: Using Video/Electronic Magnification Tools for Accessing Printed Information

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Closed Circuit TeleVisions (CCTVs) have evolved into one of the most useful tools used by people with low vision for accessing printed information. A more descriptive name for these technology tools is video or electronic magnifiers. This category has expanded so rapidly that we now have several distinct sub-categories including: desktop models, hand-held camera models, electronic pocket models, and digital imaging systems. Participants are provided an in-depth look at these devices with emphasis on their strengths and weaknesses for accomplishing specific tasks.

Approved by ACVREP and CRCC for 1 hour of continuing education credit

Webinar 3: Computer/Screen Magnification Technologies: Hardware & Software

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Accessing computers and other electronic devices can be difficult for people with low vision. In addition to hardware options such as larger monitors, monitor extension arms, and Fresnel lens magnifiers, there is a wide variety of software options available to assist in this area. Topics covered include:

• Display property adjustments to operating system and application software
• Accessibility features of operating system
• Cursor enhancement software
• Screen magnification software such as freeware/shareware, low cost and mid-priced magnifiers, full-featured magnifiers

Approved by ACVREP and CRCC for 1 hour of continuing education credit

Webinar 4: Other Useful Technologies for People with Low Vision

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Many people with low vision find some auditory and some tactile tools useful for certain tasks. Topics covered include:

• E-book readers – auditory/visual
• Cell phones – auditory/visual
• Tablets
• GPS – auditory/visual
• Calculators/dictionaries - auditory/visual

Approved by ACVREP and CRCC for 1 hour of continuing education credit

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Aging and Vision Loss Webinars

Webinar on Contrast and Lighting

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This webinar covers the importance of contrast sensitivity function for the person with low vision, how to measure it, and how to increase contrast in the home and other environments. In addition, the presenter discusses illumination, different types of lamps available and pros and cons for using each depending on type of vision and activity in which person is engaged, positioning of light, and controlling for glare.

To complete the course and receive continuing education credits for the webinar, you must read the slides and/or listen to the audio webinar, take the post-test with an 80% score, and complete the evaluation. Upon completion of these steps, you will immediately get a confirmation that you have completed the webinar.

You will then receive your certificates through your email.

Tip: You can read all the slides in continuous text by using the print-friendly feature.

ACVREP approved hours: 1

Webinar on Diabetic Foot Disorders

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This webinar course consists of a lecture with accompanying slides entitled: PEDORTHIC MANAGEMENT OF DIABETIC FOOT DISORDERS. It is recorded and has a written transcript and a power point presentation.

ACVREP approved hours: 1
CRC approved hours: 1

Webinar on Lighting and the Visually Impaired, with Special Emphasis on LED Lighting

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Presenter: Bryan Gerritsen, CLVT

This 60-minute webinar will review the need for increased illumination by most persons with a visual impairment, compared to that of persons with no vision loss, for tasks such as reading. The need for increased illumination as we get older, especially for near tasks such as reading, will also be discussed. Various options for lighting will be summarized, including incandescent, halogen, fluorescent, full spectrum ("daylight"), and LED, along with some of the advantages and disadvantages of each. LED lighting will receive special emphasis in this presentation, particularly featuring its characteristics, benefits, strengths, and weaknesses. Finally, the critical role of positioning of lighting in regards to the target task and the user will be explored.

The webinar has been approved for 1 hour of continuing education credit for ACVREP and 1 hour for CRCC.

Other Webinars From AFB

Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind: Advances in Vision Rehabilitation-A Multidisciplinary View

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Presenters: Kara Crumbliss, O.D., David Rakofsky, Psy.D., and Tom Perski, M.A., authors of Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind.

The authors discuss the most recent information available about the causes and treatment of AMD (Age-related Macular Degeneration), concise and informational overviews of the effects of aging on vision, the emotional and psychological components of vision loss, and the integration of the individual's psychological recovery into low vision services delivery.

As a purchaser of the webinar, you can receive 15% off the AFB Press book, Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind: Personal and Professional Perspectives on Age-Related Macular Degeneration. The coupon code will be sent by e-mail once the purchase of the webinar has been completed.

Approved by ACVREP for one hour of continuing education credit.

Retirement Homes Webinar—Eye Deas You Can Use: Welcoming Residents with Vision Loss into Your Community

Access the archived version of this free webinar from June 12, 2012, on retirementhomes.com

Read the transcript of the Retirement Homes Webinar

Presenters: Dr. Pris Rogers and Julia Brock