ACVREP-Domain 3: O&M Assessment
WITH COMPLETE REAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS/ ALREADY GRADED A+ (MOST
RECENT!!)
Affordance - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..To gauge the difficulty of an environment by its features—
is a hill too steep, gravel too rough to cross the area
Environmental flow - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Perception while moving through an area
sensory substitution - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..A process by which information from a damaged
sensory channel is replaced by information entering via other sensory channels.
perceptual learning - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..learning to recognize a particular stimulus.
Unskilled perceptual learning - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Must concentrate to focus, notice both
relevant and irrelevant, near features only
Skilled perceptual learning - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Becomes more automatic, can multitask,
focus on relevant features, able to focus on distant features
motor learning - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Acquisition of patterns of motor control, through
practice and experience, leading to a relatively permanent change in the capacity to
produce skilled movements.
Perceptual-motor coordination - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Coordinating motor actions with
perceptions of thing in the environment —ascending stairs
procedural knowledge - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Knowledge of how to do something, such as
riding a bike, finding a curb
Episodic knowledge - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..memory for places or events, episodes of
experience
Conceptual/Semantic Knowledge - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Knowledge of patterns. Provides
the ability to deal with new situations without starting from scratch—street-curb-grass-
sidewalk-grass relationships, house/office numbering patterns, etc
,Inter-sensory integration - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Dominance model, equal-weighting model,
probabilistic model
Shares information & education across countries - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..IMC (international
mobility conference)
Resources for studies & research - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..JVIB
Networking in your region - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Regional O&M associations
3 consumer organizations - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..NFB, ACB, NAPVI
What do you do if an intern does not meet expectations - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..
WWII - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..O&M began following WWII, due to efforts to rehabilitate
betrans
Gloucester Conference - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..helped establish O&M as a profession, 1953
Boston College - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..First O&M university program 1960
Avon Program - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔.."Facial Vision" / echolocation/ obstacle perception for
Army WWII was Blinded vets; surgeon general/ President Roosevelt/ Col Vail. Led to
training the Hoover method at Dibble Army Hospital
COMSTAC Report - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..1961 report resulting in standards/process for O &
M certification
Richard Hoover - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Father of O&M, developed Cane techniques, Valley
Forge,
Valley Forge Army Hospital - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..First hospital to start training blind
veterans how to get around. Fist long cane with Hines
1944-and long cane mobility techniques called "foot travel"
Started by Hoover
Hines Hospital - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..O&M program focused on travel with cane
Dorothy Eustis - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Influential Individual: mother of the guide dog
movement (Seeing Eye); promoted thought of independence for blind people
, C. Warren Bledsoe - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Orienter from Valley Forge who went 1st to teach
Hoover method at Dibble Army General Hospital (1945)- then at the VA Hines Rehab
Center in 1947
Russell William - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Influential Individual: chief of Hines Blind Unit in 1948;
Sgt. blinded at Normandy; asked to counsel other newly blinded patients because of his
good attitude; had been a coach and a teacher before the war; he developed: human
guide, limp arm, upper protective technique, use of sound clues, projecting a line of
directions, constant use of the touch technique, shortening up on the cane, touch
technique at top of stairs, drop-off lesson, using blindfolds, graduated approach,
success patterns, orientation skills his principles gave insight into the internal attitude of
blind people and their capabilities
France Campbell - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Influential Individual: 1860- long cane at Perkins
directed teaching mobility as a blind person; founder of Royal Normal College &
Academy of Music for blind in UK; one of Samual Gridley Howe's blind teachers at
Perkins; knighted for his work as an educator of blind children.
Father Thomas Carroll - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Influential Individual: 1953- assembled group
to define O&M, the blind priest; Chaplin at Avon, enemy pit for the blind; Catholic Guild
for the Blind; Wrote: "Blindness, What it is, What it does" appointed to Surgeon General
Committee
Perceptual Errors - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Localization error & detection error
Localization errors - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Inability to locate something relative to oneself
Main Processes for crossing a street - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Alignment, initiating crossing,
maintaining a straight heading
path integration - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Using information about self-movement & things
encountered on the way to keep to your route
Real & imagined spatial frameworks - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Mental mapping
Allocentric frame of reference - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Relating the location of objects/places
to one another
topocentric information - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Information about the locations of
landmarks/features
Polarcentric information - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Using cardinal directions
WITH COMPLETE REAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS/ ALREADY GRADED A+ (MOST
RECENT!!)
Affordance - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..To gauge the difficulty of an environment by its features—
is a hill too steep, gravel too rough to cross the area
Environmental flow - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Perception while moving through an area
sensory substitution - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..A process by which information from a damaged
sensory channel is replaced by information entering via other sensory channels.
perceptual learning - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..learning to recognize a particular stimulus.
Unskilled perceptual learning - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Must concentrate to focus, notice both
relevant and irrelevant, near features only
Skilled perceptual learning - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Becomes more automatic, can multitask,
focus on relevant features, able to focus on distant features
motor learning - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Acquisition of patterns of motor control, through
practice and experience, leading to a relatively permanent change in the capacity to
produce skilled movements.
Perceptual-motor coordination - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Coordinating motor actions with
perceptions of thing in the environment —ascending stairs
procedural knowledge - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Knowledge of how to do something, such as
riding a bike, finding a curb
Episodic knowledge - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..memory for places or events, episodes of
experience
Conceptual/Semantic Knowledge - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Knowledge of patterns. Provides
the ability to deal with new situations without starting from scratch—street-curb-grass-
sidewalk-grass relationships, house/office numbering patterns, etc
,Inter-sensory integration - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Dominance model, equal-weighting model,
probabilistic model
Shares information & education across countries - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..IMC (international
mobility conference)
Resources for studies & research - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..JVIB
Networking in your region - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Regional O&M associations
3 consumer organizations - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..NFB, ACB, NAPVI
What do you do if an intern does not meet expectations - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..
WWII - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..O&M began following WWII, due to efforts to rehabilitate
betrans
Gloucester Conference - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..helped establish O&M as a profession, 1953
Boston College - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..First O&M university program 1960
Avon Program - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔.."Facial Vision" / echolocation/ obstacle perception for
Army WWII was Blinded vets; surgeon general/ President Roosevelt/ Col Vail. Led to
training the Hoover method at Dibble Army Hospital
COMSTAC Report - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..1961 report resulting in standards/process for O &
M certification
Richard Hoover - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Father of O&M, developed Cane techniques, Valley
Forge,
Valley Forge Army Hospital - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..First hospital to start training blind
veterans how to get around. Fist long cane with Hines
1944-and long cane mobility techniques called "foot travel"
Started by Hoover
Hines Hospital - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..O&M program focused on travel with cane
Dorothy Eustis - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Influential Individual: mother of the guide dog
movement (Seeing Eye); promoted thought of independence for blind people
, C. Warren Bledsoe - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Orienter from Valley Forge who went 1st to teach
Hoover method at Dibble Army General Hospital (1945)- then at the VA Hines Rehab
Center in 1947
Russell William - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Influential Individual: chief of Hines Blind Unit in 1948;
Sgt. blinded at Normandy; asked to counsel other newly blinded patients because of his
good attitude; had been a coach and a teacher before the war; he developed: human
guide, limp arm, upper protective technique, use of sound clues, projecting a line of
directions, constant use of the touch technique, shortening up on the cane, touch
technique at top of stairs, drop-off lesson, using blindfolds, graduated approach,
success patterns, orientation skills his principles gave insight into the internal attitude of
blind people and their capabilities
France Campbell - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Influential Individual: 1860- long cane at Perkins
directed teaching mobility as a blind person; founder of Royal Normal College &
Academy of Music for blind in UK; one of Samual Gridley Howe's blind teachers at
Perkins; knighted for his work as an educator of blind children.
Father Thomas Carroll - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Influential Individual: 1953- assembled group
to define O&M, the blind priest; Chaplin at Avon, enemy pit for the blind; Catholic Guild
for the Blind; Wrote: "Blindness, What it is, What it does" appointed to Surgeon General
Committee
Perceptual Errors - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Localization error & detection error
Localization errors - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Inability to locate something relative to oneself
Main Processes for crossing a street - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Alignment, initiating crossing,
maintaining a straight heading
path integration - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Using information about self-movement & things
encountered on the way to keep to your route
Real & imagined spatial frameworks - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Mental mapping
Allocentric frame of reference - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Relating the location of objects/places
to one another
topocentric information - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Information about the locations of
landmarks/features
Polarcentric information - ✔✔ANSW✔✔✔..Using cardinal directions
