ACVREP OM ACTUAL EXAM Actual QUESTIONS

ACVREP O&M ACTUAL EXAM (Actual / ) QUESTIONS WITH verified ANSWERS GRADED A+

• consumer organizations - ----Answers-----NFB, ACB,

NAPVI

What do you do if an intern does not meet expectations - ---- Answers-----

WWII - ----Answers-----O&M began following WWII, due to efforts to rehabilitate betrans

Gloucester Conference - ----Answers-----helped establish O&M as a profession, 1953

Boston College - ----Answers-----First O&M university program 1960

Avon Program - ----Answers-----"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 - ----Answers-----1961 report resulting in standards/process for O & M certification 1 / 4

Richard Hoover - ----Answers-----Father of O&M, developed Cane techniques, Valley Forge,

Valley Forge Army Hospital - ----Answers-----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 - ----Answers-----O&M program focused on travel with cane

Dorothy Eustis - ----Answers-----Influential Individual:

mother of the guide dog movement (Seeing Eye); promoted thought of independence for blind people

• Warren Bledsoe - ----Answers-----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 - ----Answers-----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 2 / 4

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 - ----Answers-----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 - ----Answers-----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

Mary E Switzer - ----Answers-----Influential Individual: 1954-

Director of Office of Vocational Rehabilitation- supported grants for O&M specialists; federal grants at Boston College & WMU

John Malamazian - ----Answers-----First sighted chief of Hines, one of the first O&Ms

Alfred Dee Corbett - ----Answers-----One of the first O&Ms

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Stanley Suterko - ----Answers-----Established O&M curriculum, one of the first O&Ms

Edward Thuis - ----Answers-----One of the first O&Ms

Lawrence Blaha - ----Answers-----Training program for instruction in LA, one of the first O&Ms

Edward Meese - ----Answers-----Role model for O&Ms, trained fiirst 80 vets at Hines, one of the first O&Ms

orbit - ----Answers-----Eye socket

conjunctiva - ----Answers-----mucous membrane that lines the eyelids and outer surface of the eyeball

Sclera - ----Answers-----white of the eye

Cornea - ----Answers-----The clear tissue that covers the front of the eye

Iris - ----Answers-----a ring of muscle tissue that forms the colored portion of the eye around the pupil and controls the size of the pupil opening

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