Professional Resources Hub
A curated collection of evidence-based tools, curricula, and templates designed to support Teacher of students with Visual Impairments (TVI) and Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist (COMS) workflows.
💼 Itinerant Teacher Resources
Time Tracking Logs
Accessible OneNote Template, Google Document for observational notes, assessment data, and more. Lesson planning page. Table with technology inventory for all students that includes who purchased etc. Table with important school personnel
Car Essentials (with links to shopping cart to purchase)
Scheduling tool; beginning of the year; which includes travel time
Beginning of school year letter to teachers and families
👁️ TVI Essential Assessment Tools
Functional Vision Assessment (FVA)
Comprehensive layout configuration and targeted observation prompts for analyzing student visual functioning boundaries across distinct educational settings.
Learning Media Assessment (LMA)
Structured diagnostic execution protocol engineered to isolate appropriate sensory paths and objective literacy media selections with built-in data sheets.
🗺️ O&M Assessment Tools
Environmental & Route Audits
Caseload diagnostic logs tracking sensory landmarks, street intersection topologies, tactile surfaces, and auditory cues across indoor and outdoor instructional routes.
O&M Progress Trackers
Objective criteria checklists covering cane technique precision, independent street crossings, spatial alignment mechanics, and public transit navigation baselines.
🚀 O&M Direct Lesson Supports
O&M Travel Framework
A deep orientation and mobility structural framework systematically traversing early upper-protective indoor skills out to highly complex community travel tracks.
Tactile Map Design Blueprints
Production blueprints outlining spacing rules, symbol keys, and density configurations for building micro-mobility spatial tracking charts for campus layouts.
✏️ TVI Direct Lesson Supports
Braille Reading Fluency
Ten-week structured layout sequence containing daily activity tracking sheets and tactile reading stamina targets.
Tactile Discrimination
Engaging, hands-on instructional mechanics to systematically advance student finger sensitivity and tracking mechanics.
Worksheet Layout Shells
Pre-formatted digital structural templates customized for clear, immediate conversion to braille or clean high-contrast layouts.
📌 Websites to Bookmark (TVI, COMS)
📄 Intellectual Property & Terms of Use
© 2026 Gregory Gerhart. Content hosted within the BLV Access Portal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Visiting professionals are strictly permitted to download, copy, and deploy these read-only templates for direct use with their immediate student caseloads. Digital mirroring, public redistribution, unauthorized database synthesis, or commercial sales of these frameworks without express written authorization is prohibited.
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