MOBILITY EXAM QUESTIONS AND
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AER - Answer ✅Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired
COMSTAC report - Answer ✅1966 Commission on Standards and Accreditation of Services for
the Blind report recommending standards for service programs and an organization of voluntary
accreditation based on these standards
AFB - Answer ✅American Foundation for the Blind
IMC - Answer ✅International Mobility Conference
ACVREP - Answer ✅Academy for Certification of Vision Rehabilitation and Educational
Professionals
First 6 O&M professionals - Answer ✅John Malamazian, Stanley Suterko, Alfred D Corbett,
Edward Thuis, Lawrence Blaha, and Edward Mees 1947
AFB - Answer ✅American Foundation for the Blind
Boston College - Answer ✅1st university program 1960
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,Sir Frances Campbell - Answer ✅1860- experiments with long cane for "foot travel" at Perkins
The Seeing Eye - Answer ✅1929- first dog guide school in US
Valley Forge Army Hospital - Answer ✅1944- Hoover and long cane mobility techniques called
"foot travel"
C Warren Bledsoe - Answer ✅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 C Williams - Answer ✅1948- blind chief of Hines Blind Unit
The Long Cane - Answer ✅1952 video produced by the VA to inform about the Hoover Method
Father Thomas J Carroll - Answer ✅1953 Catholic Guild for the Blind mounts Gloucester
conference to define the role and training of mobility instructors (unsuccessful)
Mary E Switzer - Answer ✅1954- director of Office of Voc Rehab helps with Voc Rehab Act to
support demo grants to help prepare O&M specialists.
Dorothy Eustis - Answer ✅Mother of the Dog Guide movement; established The Seeing Eye in
1929
Avon Program - Answer ✅"Facial Vision" / obstacle perception for Army WWII was Blinded vets;
surgeon general/ President Roosevelt/ Col Vail. Led to training the Hoover method at Dibble
Army Hospital
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, CEC - Answer ✅Council for Exceptional Children
JVIB - Answer ✅Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness
Sound propagation - Answer ✅A disturbance in the medium sound travels through
Rarefraction - Answer ✅An area where the displaced particles in a medium are spread out
Compression - Answer ✅An area where the displaced particles are closer together
Elasticity - Answer ✅A medium's tendency to resist change and return to its original state
intensity of sound - Answer ✅Perceived as loudness- related to the density of compressions
and amplitude of particle vibration
Frequency - Answer ✅Perceived as pitch- the rate of compressions and rarefactions per second
(Hz)
Wavelength - Answer ✅Distance covered by one complete cycle of a sound wave. High
frequency= short wavelength; low frequency = long wavelengths
noise cancelling - Answer ✅Tones that are out of phase are used to cancel sounds
Baffle - Answer ✅An obstacle to sound energy that can either absorb, reflect, refract, or diffract
the sound energy
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