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Awesome webinar on advocacy in the current administration
Hi guys!? I was inspired and galvanized with hope by the amazing legislative webinar AER did a week or two ago, and want to share it with you.?
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I was so pleased that the panelists focused on how to work with folks together, rather than demonize them and "just say no" and fight everything they are doing, with great examples of how that can be successful.?
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I'm copying the AER announcement with the link below, which includes an announcement of an exciting webinar from the O&M Division:
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here is a link to the recording. It is free for all to access, so share it as you see fit.
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The takeaway from that webinar was to share our stories, share them often, and share them with everyone. Our advocacy messaging strategy is to:
Affirm: Clearly state and reinforce our core message in a positive, impactful way
Layer: Build upon our core message by adding stories, data, and testimonials to deepen the understanding and engagement of those receiving our messages.?
Sustain: Maintain consistent messaging across time and platforms (letters, social media, phone calls) to ensure long-term impact. Together, these techniques will help our advocacy message to resonate, stay relevant, and lead to action.?
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To implement this advocacy strategy, AER is working on (1). launching an for members on our website, (2). creating one-page documents for members to use as talking points to guide conversations with legislators and (3.) implementing an advocacy tool.?
- Advocacy resource page: ?You can find our new advocacy resource page under "Professional Development" and then "Advocacy" on our website. There, you can find one-page fact sheets, helpful resources, and links to our advocacy tool and efforts. We will continue to add more content as it becomes available. ?
- One-page documents: There are some one-page documents on the website advocacy resources page already, and we are creating more. These one-page documents will provide members with talking points focused on different areas of our profession and current proposed legislation.
- Advocacy tool: After some delay in finding the right Advocacy Tool for AER, we have narrowed it down and hope to finalize things this week. The advocacy toolkit aims to provide AER members with the necessary information and tools to take action and make their voices heard. The online / phone app toolkit will include a variety of materials such as fact sheets, sample letters, social media graphics, and even ways to record your clients'/students'/your success stories to provide a deeper impact on our advocacy efforts.?
Thank you for your continued partnership as we work together to advocate for our clients/students and our professions.?
Sincerely,?
You AER President,?
Dr. Rebecca Renshaw
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How does the recent release of PROWAG affect APS & What's new with APS Technology:
A Webinar presented by Polara and AER O&M Division 9
Thursday, May 1, 2025? |? 7:00 pm ET
The O&M Division is excited to invite you to an insightful webinar "How Does the Recent Release of PROWAG Affect APS & What's New with APS Technology?" Join us for an opportunity to learn from industry expert Matt Baker, Vice President of Sales at Polara Enterprises, as he explores the latest updates on PROWAG and cutting-edge APS technology.
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Tampa Bay area OMS School Need
Pasco county schools in the Tampa area are in need of OMS support for a small caseload of students around the county. If you know of anyone in the area who could help between now and the end of the school year; it's possible to even look at stipends for traveling. Through end of the school year 5/30/25. Feel free to call me at 813-540-9714 or email me directly mandi.rivera@...
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Early Bird Registration Rates Extended!
A reminder that the discounted, early registration deadline for Envision Conference 2025 has been extended! Several O&M sessions and multiple accessibility updates and vendors of interest. Twenty-one hours of ACVREP credit. We would love to see you there. The Envision Conference will take place May 28 - 31 in Dallas, Texas. See the agenda and register at? .
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Best regards,
Michael
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Re: Field Test Opportunity for APH's new Navigation App: Indigo
I was fortunate enough?to work with Larry Skutchan and Rob Meredith on Nearby from the beginning. So, I will be more than happy?to pass along your comments. Of course, I hope you'll also take the survey. ?
Indigo Field Evaluator Information and Application:
Link:
Best,
Denise Snow
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I really liked Nearby Explorer as well.?
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as a blind user, if? most? of the features? from Nearby Explorer can be? Brought back that'd be great and? a way to bring over favourites file from nearby .
that? had most of the features? blind users liked.
On 3/20/2025 3:50 PM, Denise Snow via groups.io wrote:
Please join APH in making accessible GPS even better. Confidentially, APH is taking over the app currently known as GoodMaps Outdoors. We are adding a Virtual mode and hopefully transit integration. This survey will help us know what
is missing from navigation apps, particularly from GoodMaps Outdoors so we can make improvements to the updated version.
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Please contribute through this survey and as a field tester.
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Indigo Field Evaluator Information and Application:
Link:
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QR
code: 
Best,
Mike
May and Denise Snow
APH
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Re: Field Test Opportunity for APH's new Navigation App: Indigo
I really liked Nearby Explorer as well.?
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as a blind user, if? most? of the features? from Nearby Explorer can be? Brought back that'd be great and? a way to bring over favourites file from nearby .
that? had most of the features? blind users liked.
On 3/20/2025 3:50 PM, Denise Snow via groups.io wrote:
Please join APH in making accessible GPS even better. Confidentially, APH is taking over the app currently known as GoodMaps Outdoors. We are adding a Virtual mode and hopefully transit integration. This survey
will help us know what is missing from navigation apps, particularly from GoodMaps Outdoors so we can make improvements to the updated version.
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Please contribute through this survey and as a field tester.
?
Indigo Field Evaluator Information and Application:
Link:
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QR
code: 
Best,
Mike
May and Denise Snow
APH
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Re: Field Test Opportunity for APH's new Navigation App: Indigo
as a blind user, if? most? of the features? from Nearby Explorer
can be? Brought back that'd be great and? a way to bring over
favourites file from nearby .
that? had most of the features? blind users liked.
On 3/20/2025 3:50 PM, Denise Snow via
groups.io wrote:
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Please join APH
in making accessible GPS even better. Confidentially, APH is
taking over the app currently known as GoodMaps Outdoors. We are
adding a Virtual mode and hopefully transit integration. This
survey will help us know what is missing from navigation apps,
particularly from GoodMaps Outdoors so we can make improvements
to the updated version.
?
Please contribute
through this survey and as a field tester.
?
Indigo Field
Evaluator Information and Application:
Link:
?
QR code: 
Best,
Mike May and Denise Snow
APH
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Field Test Opportunity for APH's new Navigation App: Indigo
Please join APH in making accessible GPS even better. Confidentially, APH is taking over the app currently known as GoodMaps Outdoors. We are adding a Virtual mode and hopefully transit integration. This survey will help us know what is missing from navigation apps, particularly from GoodMaps Outdoors so we can make improvements to the updated version.
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Please contribute through this survey and as a field tester.
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Indigo Field Evaluator Information and Application:
Link:
?
QR code: 
Best,
Mike May and Denise Snow
APH
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Maybe some tactile tape? I have no idea of the cost, but Amazon uses something similar to this:? ?to make routes for their visually impaired associates through the warehouses. I hope you find what you’re looking for!?
Hello! I am wondering if anyone has ever had the opportunity to make a school stage more safe by putting some kind of tactile border near the edge of the stage. I wanted to put truncated domes on the stage edge and before the stairs, but everything I have searched either comes up as wet cement installation or 2'x4' warning pads, like at the crosswalks. Does anyone have any other brainstorm ideas, or something that they have used in a situation similar to this? Any links to an adhesive truncated dome - that can be installed onto a wooden stage - not concrete?
Another question along the same line - I want to have a seperate, different texture area put on the stage floor to make students aware that this line is where the curtain closes, so they should stand behind that line before the curtains close at the end of a scene.?
Any ideas are very welcome and I thank you for your time!
Suzanne
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Thanks for your input, Dona!
I definitely do not want my students falling off of the stage, as your friend did! I got some really great ideas from this thread, so thanks so much to everyone who had input fo me!
Suzanne
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Thanks for the floor tile idea! That's an economical option.
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I love the transition tape idea! I also am going to show the person funding my project the podotactile options as well. Thanks for your help!
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The taped cord is a great idea! Thanks for your suggestion!
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Hi Suzanne,
For somewhat temporary installation (e.g. for specific rehearsals and performances) some have taken cordage/rope and put tape over the top. This allows there to be a tactile indicator of where to stand for various performers. I am sure you could do the same for the curtain as well as the front of the stage.
You could consider peel and stick adhesive carpet squares from Home Depot, Lowes, etc. They come in 12 inch squares but you can cut them to the size needed. Anything that is significantly that the floor covering of the stage at the edge should give a good tactile clue.?
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On Mar 18, 2025, at 10:54?AM, Suzanne K-F via groups.io <smk0005@...> wrote:
Hello! I am wondering if anyone has ever had the opportunity to make a school stage more safe by putting some kind of tactile border near the edge of the stage. I wanted to put truncated domes on the stage edge and before the stairs, but everything I have searched either comes up as wet cement installation or 2'x4' warning pads, like at the crosswalks. Does anyone have any other brainstorm ideas, or something that they have used in a situation similar to this? Any links to an adhesive truncated dome - that can be installed onto a wooden stage - not concrete?
Another question along the same line - I want to have a seperate, different texture area put on the stage floor to make students aware that this line is where the curtain closes, so they should stand behind that line before the curtains close at the end of a scene.?
Any ideas are very welcome and I thank you for your time!
Suzanne
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Hi Suzanne,
I have gone down a similar search and found a few options outside the US described as podotactile indoor strip. I didn’t purchase any. I am also a fan of taping over a cord/rope as temporary approach. I haven't used this, but perhaps 2-3 rows of transition tape could be put down at an appropriate distance from the edge? And a high contrast color, if needed.?
Looking forward to hearing your solution!?
Best, Addie Yake M.S. Ed, COMS, GDMI
On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 10:59?AM Angela Tabb via <angela.tabb= [email protected]> wrote: Hello Suzanne,
Last summer the group I was working with used cords taped securely to the floor to provide boundaries and places to stand on the stage. I’m sure thick rope under the tape could work also.? Lots of practice on stage to gain mental map and spatial awareness. No accidents were reported and the talent show went beautifully!?
I know they’ve done this at a dining in the dark event to assist with orientation in open spaces while carrying trays of food.?
And I believe they use this kind of idea for goal ball markings on the floors also.?
Different texture rug/rubber mat could work also, as long as it doesn’t have turn up edges to cause tripping hazard.?
Hope these are helpful! Good luck.?
开云体育 Together, Angela Tabb, COMS? Sensory Travel, LLC Orientation & Mobility Services?
Make it a beautiful day! ? ?Oh, Suzann, I applaud your initiative and hope that you find the materials you need.
I’m only reaching out to share the gratifying experience I had working with Stanley Robert Morgan, the actor who played the part of the blind drug-dealing bar-owner / friend of Omar in “The Wire“ as his O&M instructor shortly after he lost his vision.? He was returning to acting, and needed tactile markings on the stage so that he could know where to stand and which way to face. We came up with silly things like little boards, but I like where you’re going, with materials that would not be a tripping hazard.
Years later, he did fall off the stage, by the way, backing up to the edge of the stage (I didn’t realize stages have a back that you can fall off of!).
I like where you’re going with the materials. ?if you want sources of material that might be more appropriate (flatter, and not made of concrete!) I can ask the environmental access committee members, they have sources of that kind of material. — Dona ————————— Dona Sauerburger, COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist for the blind
? Hello! I am wondering if anyone has ever had the opportunity to make a school stage more safe by putting some kind of tactile border near the edge of the stage. I wanted to put truncated domes on the stage edge and before the stairs, but everything I have searched either comes up as wet cement installation or 2'x4' warning pads, like at the crosswalks. Does anyone have any other brainstorm ideas, or something that they have used in a situation similar to this? Any links to an adhesive truncated dome - that can be installed onto a wooden stage - not concrete?
Another question along the same line - I want to have a seperate, different texture area put on the stage floor to make students aware that this line is where the curtain closes, so they should stand behind that line before the curtains close at the end of a scene.?
Any ideas are very welcome and I thank you for your time!
Suzanne
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Hello Suzanne,
Last summer the group I was working with used cords taped securely to the floor to provide boundaries and places to stand on the stage. I’m sure thick rope under the tape could work also. ?Lots of practice on stage to gain mental map and spatial awareness. No accidents were reported and the talent show went beautifully!?
I know they’ve done this at a dining in the dark event to assist with orientation in open spaces while carrying trays of food.?
And I believe they use this kind of idea for goal ball markings on the floors also.?
Different texture rug/rubber mat could work also, as long as it doesn’t have turn up edges to cause tripping hazard.?
Hope these are helpful! Good luck.?
开云体育 Together, Angela Tabb, COMS? Sensory Travel, LLC Orientation & Mobility Services? Angela@...
Make it a beautiful day! ?
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On Mar 18, 2025, at 12:25?PM, Dona Sauerburger via groups.io <dona@...> wrote:
? Oh, Suzann, I applaud your initiative and hope that you find the materials you need.
I’m only reaching out to share the gratifying experience I had working with Stanley Robert Morgan, the actor who played the part of the blind drug-dealing bar-owner / friend of Omar in “The Wire“ as his O&M instructor shortly after he lost his vision. ?He was returning to acting, and needed tactile markings on the stage so that he could know where to stand and which way to face. We came up with silly things like little boards, but I like where you’re going, with materials that would not be a tripping hazard.
Years later, he did fall off the stage, by the way, backing up to the edge of the stage (I didn’t realize stages have a back that you can fall off of!).
I like where you’re going with the materials. ?if you want sources of material that might be more appropriate (flatter, and not made of concrete!) I can ask the environmental access committee members, they have sources of that kind of material. — Dona ————————— Dona Sauerburger, COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist for the blind www.sauerburger.org On Mar 18, 2025, at 12:54?PM, Suzanne K-F via groups.io <smk0005@...> wrote:
? Hello! I am wondering if anyone has ever had the opportunity to make a school stage more safe by putting some kind of tactile border near the edge of the stage. I wanted to put truncated domes on the stage edge and before the stairs, but everything I have searched either comes up as wet cement installation or 2'x4' warning pads, like at the crosswalks. Does anyone have any other brainstorm ideas, or something that they have used in a situation similar to this? Any links to an adhesive truncated dome - that can be installed onto a wooden stage - not concrete?
Another question along the same line - I want to have a seperate, different texture area put on the stage floor to make students aware that this line is where the curtain closes, so they should stand behind that line before the curtains close at the end of a scene.?
Any ideas are very welcome and I thank you for your time!
Suzanne
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Oh, Suzann, I applaud your initiative and hope that you find the materials you need.
I’m only reaching out to share the gratifying experience I had working with Stanley Robert Morgan, the actor who played the part of the blind drug-dealing bar-owner / friend of Omar in “The Wire“ as his O&M instructor shortly after he lost his vision. ?He was returning to acting, and needed tactile markings on the stage so that he could know where to stand and which way to face. We came up with silly things like little boards, but I like where you’re going, with materials that would not be a tripping hazard.
Years later, he did fall off the stage, by the way, backing up to the edge of the stage (I didn’t realize stages have a back that you can fall off of!).
I like where you’re going with the materials. ?if you want sources of material that might be more appropriate (flatter, and not made of concrete!) I can ask the environmental access committee members, they have sources of that kind of material. — Dona ————————— Dona Sauerburger, COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist for the blind www.sauerburger.org
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On Mar 18, 2025, at 12:54?PM, Suzanne K-F via groups.io <smk0005@...> wrote:
? Hello! I am wondering if anyone has ever had the opportunity to make a school stage more safe by putting some kind of tactile border near the edge of the stage. I wanted to put truncated domes on the stage edge and before the stairs, but everything I have searched either comes up as wet cement installation or 2'x4' warning pads, like at the crosswalks. Does anyone have any other brainstorm ideas, or something that they have used in a situation similar to this? Any links to an adhesive truncated dome - that can be installed onto a wooden stage - not concrete?
Another question along the same line - I want to have a seperate, different texture area put on the stage floor to make students aware that this line is where the curtain closes, so they should stand behind that line before the curtains close at the end of a scene.?
Any ideas are very welcome and I thank you for your time!
Suzanne
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Hello! I am wondering if anyone has ever had the opportunity to make a school stage more safe by putting some kind of tactile border near the edge of the stage. I wanted to put truncated domes on the stage edge and before the stairs, but everything I have searched either comes up as wet cement installation or 2'x4' warning pads, like at the crosswalks. Does anyone have any other brainstorm ideas, or something that they have used in a situation similar to this? Any links to an adhesive truncated dome - that can be installed onto a wooden stage - not concrete?
Another question along the same line - I want to have a seperate, different texture area put on the stage floor to make students aware that this line is where the curtain closes, so they should stand behind that line before the curtains close at the end of a scene.?
Any ideas are very welcome and I thank you for your time!
Suzanne
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Re: NEW webinar on maximizing hearing and vision for uncontrolled crossings!
Tee hee. THANK you, I’m so glad you like it!!! — Dona ————————— Dona Sauerburger, COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist for the blind www.sauerburger.org
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On Mar 18, 2025, at 6:52?AM, Gene Bourquin <oandmhk@...> wrote:
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I’ve watched the first 30?minutes of the PART 1 video. ?This is soooooo good and rich with discussion, information, and strategies. Wow!
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From: Dona Sauerburger <dona@...>
Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 11:04
To: Open International O&M listserv < [email protected]>, Aer O&m Listserv <oandm@...>
Cc: troisi.jolene@... <troisi.jolene@...>, clashinsky@... <clashinsky@...>
Subject: NEW webinar on maximizing hearing and vision for uncontrolled crossings!
HI everyone!? We just completed a webinar on a topic I think has never been done before -- maximizing your skills for listening and looking for crossing streets with no traffic control.
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It is Part 3 of a 3-part series of webinars on preparing students for uncontrolled crossings, providing the very latest information for uncontrolled crossings (we no longer use TMAD!), and in each of them, the participants -- O&Ms
like yourself -- try the skills and add their insights and ideas (and sometimes push back on material that is new to them!).
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The webinars are free, offering a total of more than 8 hours of ACVREP credit.? The home page is at
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Oh wow, Jen, thank you SO much! ?Having you in Part 2, one of several participants ?analyzing a situation and assessing its risk from the perspective of an experienced traveler made such a wonderful, “real-life” addition that I am convinced will help folks understand how to help their students learn to deal with these crossings. ?Yay!!!! — Dona ————————— Dona Sauerburger, COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist for the blind www.sauerburger.org
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On Mar 18, 2025, at 12:31?AM, Jen via groups.io <jenandnixon@...> wrote:
? Before I head to bed for a very packed day tomorrow, had to respond to this email and congratulate you in completing such a daunting and tireless project recruiting volunteers to assist as “students”. As one who assisted last summer, I learned a ton; especially since so much has changed in the teaching of O&M. My last lesson was over 20+ years ago and it was an eye opener to me of all the changes! ?
Hip! Hip! Hurray!Jen.?
On Mar 17, 2025, at 9:04?PM, Dona Sauerburger via groups.io <dona@...> wrote:
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HI everyone!? We just completed a webinar on a topic I think has never been done before -- maximizing your skills for listening and looking for crossing streets with no traffic control.
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It is Part 3 of a 3-part series of webinars on preparing students for uncontrolled crossings, providing the very latest information for uncontrolled crossings (we no longer use TMAD!), and in each of them, the participants -- O&Ms like yourself -- try the skills and add their insights and ideas (and sometimes push back on material that is new to them!).
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The webinars are free, offering a total of more than 8 hours of ACVREP credit.? The home page is at
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Enjoy!
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Dona
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