These courses include Basic Living Skills, Human Relations, Total Communication, and Employment Orientation. The mainstreamed track provides interpreters, notetakers, and tutors while you are enrolled in occupational program course work. You will also be working with a placement specialist as you are completing a training program. A description of the course offerings in the Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing can be found in the course description of the catalog beginning with 871. The Program for the Visually Impaired prepares visually disabled persons to live independently.
Students acquire daily living skills such as cooking, budgeting, and personal grooming.
They learn to communicate using Braille, signature writing, typing, and techniques. Low-vision students are encouraged to use optical aids to increase the efficiency of their natural vision. Students are trained to use the long cane and other mobility techniques so they can move safely around the school and community. The program's primary goal is to integrate the visually impaired into the seeing world. Through the Program for the Visually Impaired, students are prepared to find jobs or continue their education.