Becoming Commuters: Teaching Students Traveling to Work Using Public Transportation

摘要

As a teacher of visually impaired students at the Arizona State School for the Deaf and Blind, I regularly traveled with my students to their off-campus jobs by school van. In my sixth year of teaching, I realized that transportation to the work site is also an important component of successful employment. During the five years before my epiphany, my students would pile into the large, accessible van owned by the school and be driven to their jobs at the local pizza shop, department store, or other workplace. I realized my students might be missing a learning opportunity by being driven to work when I participated in a summer orientation and mobility (O&M) internshin at Perkins School for the Blind