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| Photo from left to right: Elizabeth Hilburn WBRC O&M Intern, Kim Salazar WBRC O&M Intern, and Rasan Gray WBRC Intern Coordinator. |
Congratulations to Elizabeth
Hilburn and Kim Salazar for completing their 11 week Orientation and Mobility
Internship Program at the Western Blind Rehabilitation Center. Elizabeth
and Kim are both Master’s Level Orientation and Mobility Students from California
State University Los Angles. They will both be graduating from California
State University Los Angles with a Master’s Degree in Special Education,
emphasis on Orientation and Mobility in June 2012.
The Western Blind Rehabilitation
Center Orientation and Mobility (O&M) Internship Program began in
1968. As a result of advances in evidence based assessment and treatment
curriculum for Low Vision O&M made by WBRC, a full time O&M Intern Coordinator
was added to the program in 1979. Affiliation agreements allow Master’s
level students from California State University, Los Angles, San Francisco
State University, and Western Michigan University to participate in the WBRC O&M
Internship Program. Up to five interns at a time participate in the 11 -
16 week internship period and are an active part of the treatment team for
veterans participating in Blind and Low Vision rehabilitation at WBRC.
The O&M Internship Program also provides approximately 100 hours of
additional instruction including Glare Remediation, Low Vision Cane Skills and
Visual Scanning assessment and training, and Monocular Telescope
Techniques. Over 450 interns have successfully completed the WBRC O&M
Internship Program at this time.
