Orientation & mobility assessment study guide (domain 6
Orientation strategies skills) || Acknowledged Answers 100%.
What environmental features can be used for orientation correct answers 1. Clues- things that use
the senses to tell you where you are but may not always be there
2. Landmark- things that are permanent that can be used to know where you are
3. Use your senses to identify familiar places to identify where you are
4. Textured surface on the ground
What environmental features can be used for orientation continued 1 correct answers 5. Curbs
and featured landmarks
6. Knowledge of patterns helps with cognitive mapping
7. Cognitive mapping
When teaching the use of sun as an orientation environmental features, what related concept
must the learner know? correct answers 1. You need to teach cardinal directions
2. You need to teach how to sense the sun
3. You need to teach how the sun travels across the sky
A learner veers when crossing a street. What environmental feature might assist the learner in
maintaining a straight line of travel correct answers 1. Aligning with the sounds of parallel traffic
2. Align with the slope of the curb
3. APS push button
4. The downward slope of the road goes towards the sidewalk
5. Useful alignment curb are traffic sounds and maintaining the approach direction at signalized
and unsignalized
What environmental features might assist the learner in maintaining a straight line of travel
continued 1 correct answers 6. Align with the sound of traffic or the parallel street
, 7. Another strategy is to move away from the parallel street for enough that the curb is straight
and square off on the curb edge, however the traveler may not be in the crosswalk
What environmental features might assist the learner in maintaining a straight line of travel
continued 2 correct answers 8. It is often possible to align by locating physical feature that can be
used as an alignment aid
What environmental features might assist the learner in maintaining a straight line of travel
continued 3 correct answers 9. Learn how to align with tactually detectable lines at various
angles if they have practice with feedback
10. Need to analyze the intersection
11. Using the push button
Define a landmarks correct answers 1. Objects, sounds, odors, temperatures, or tactile or visual
clues that are easily recognized, are constant, a day have discrete, permanent locations in the
environment that can give a traveler unique, specific information about the individuals location
in space
Define a primary landmark correct answers 1. Is an environmental feature that is detectable to
visually impaired travelers, that is always present and that is not likely to be missed as one
traveler in route
Define secondary primary landmark correct answers 1. Any environmental that is intermittent or
that may not be encountered by traveler as they travel a route
Define primary information point correct answers 1. They are features that, while not unique
along a path and thus not considered landmarks, can be used in combination with other features
to, provide information about ones location
Define a cue correct answers 1. Cues are something that can be used to warn you of drop-off,
curbs, or stairs
2. These cues can be visual or tactual
Orientation strategies skills) || Acknowledged Answers 100%.
What environmental features can be used for orientation correct answers 1. Clues- things that use
the senses to tell you where you are but may not always be there
2. Landmark- things that are permanent that can be used to know where you are
3. Use your senses to identify familiar places to identify where you are
4. Textured surface on the ground
What environmental features can be used for orientation continued 1 correct answers 5. Curbs
and featured landmarks
6. Knowledge of patterns helps with cognitive mapping
7. Cognitive mapping
When teaching the use of sun as an orientation environmental features, what related concept
must the learner know? correct answers 1. You need to teach cardinal directions
2. You need to teach how to sense the sun
3. You need to teach how the sun travels across the sky
A learner veers when crossing a street. What environmental feature might assist the learner in
maintaining a straight line of travel correct answers 1. Aligning with the sounds of parallel traffic
2. Align with the slope of the curb
3. APS push button
4. The downward slope of the road goes towards the sidewalk
5. Useful alignment curb are traffic sounds and maintaining the approach direction at signalized
and unsignalized
What environmental features might assist the learner in maintaining a straight line of travel
continued 1 correct answers 6. Align with the sound of traffic or the parallel street
, 7. Another strategy is to move away from the parallel street for enough that the curb is straight
and square off on the curb edge, however the traveler may not be in the crosswalk
What environmental features might assist the learner in maintaining a straight line of travel
continued 2 correct answers 8. It is often possible to align by locating physical feature that can be
used as an alignment aid
What environmental features might assist the learner in maintaining a straight line of travel
continued 3 correct answers 9. Learn how to align with tactually detectable lines at various
angles if they have practice with feedback
10. Need to analyze the intersection
11. Using the push button
Define a landmarks correct answers 1. Objects, sounds, odors, temperatures, or tactile or visual
clues that are easily recognized, are constant, a day have discrete, permanent locations in the
environment that can give a traveler unique, specific information about the individuals location
in space
Define a primary landmark correct answers 1. Is an environmental feature that is detectable to
visually impaired travelers, that is always present and that is not likely to be missed as one
traveler in route
Define secondary primary landmark correct answers 1. Any environmental that is intermittent or
that may not be encountered by traveler as they travel a route
Define primary information point correct answers 1. They are features that, while not unique
along a path and thus not considered landmarks, can be used in combination with other features
to, provide information about ones location
Define a cue correct answers 1. Cues are something that can be used to warn you of drop-off,
curbs, or stairs
2. These cues can be visual or tactual
