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Michigan's Vision Severity Rating Scales List
1996 - 2008

Thanks! to : Michigan Department of Education - Low Incidence Outreach

• Orientation and Mobility Severity Rating Scale - Information and Guidelines (Revised 2008) New Oct. 2008
  • Download ORIENTATION & MOBILITY SEVERITY SCALE and Summary Worksheet (O&MSRS) Revised 2008 (Excel 97 Format - 37k) New Oct. 2008
  • Download ORIENTATION & MOBILITY SEVERITY SCALE FOR STUDENTS WITH ADDITIONAL NEEDS (O&MSRS+) and Summary Worksheet Revised 2008 (Excel 97 format - 32k) New Oct. 2008
• Severity Rating Scale for Visually Impaired Students 1996
  • Summary Form
  • Download Summary Form (Excel 97 Format - 17.5k)
  • Download Characteristics Worksheet (Excel 97 format - 22k)
  • Appendix A - Table of Approximate Equivalent Visual Acuity Notations
• Vision Severity Rating Scale for Students with Additional Impairments 1996
  • Characteristics Worksheet
  • Download Characteristics Worksheet (Excel 97 format - 18.5k)
  • Summary Form
  • Download Summary Form (Excel 97 Format - 17.5k)
• Caseload Management

Orientation and Mobility Severity Rating Scale (Revised 2008)

This is the final product of many rewrites of the Orientation and Mobility Severity Rating Scale and the Orientation and Mobility Severity Rating Scale for Students with Additional Needs. The MDE-LIO Orientation and Mobility Task Force has spent hours upon hours sifting through the input gathered at O&M Task Force meetings, MAER conference presentations, and the presentation at the 2008 AER International Conference.

The O&M Task Force tried to address all needs and concerns and feel that the final products are tools which you will find to be extremely useful Susan Bradley, COMS, and Susan Langendonk, COMS

Co-chairs of the 2007-2008 MDE-LIO O&M Task Force

edited by:
Susan Bradley, COMS, MDE-LIO
Amanda English, COMS, Kalamazoo RESA
Judy Holmes, COMS, Macomb ISD
Erica Ihrke, COMS, Leader Dog for the Blind
Susan Langendonk, COMS, Ingham ISD
Lynn Pensari, COMS, Livonia Public Schools 
Amy Schreiner, COMS, Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Dawn Staley, COMS, Traverse Bay ISD
Dr. Annette Skellenger, COMS, Western Michigan University
Carol Walker, COMS, Detroit Public Schools
Crystal Yachak, COMS, Genesee ISD
Anne Zanger, COMS, Genesee ISD

Severity Rating Scale for Visually Impaired Students 1996

edited by:

• Jennifer Burch, Teacher Consultant, Calhoun County ISD
• Laurel Crilly, Outreach Coordinator, Michigan School for the Blind
• Pat Love, Teacher of the Visually Impaired, Michigan School for the Blind
• Cheryl Nametz, Teacher Consultant, Ottawa Area ISD
• Marcia Pavkovich, Teacher Consultant, Genesee ISD
• Joyce Raducha, Teacher Consultant, Gratiot-Isabella RESD
• Debbie Miller, Graduate Student, Michigan State University
• Kathy Traster, Teacher Consultant, Battle Creek
• Dorothy Ward, Teacher Consultant, Greenville

adapted from:

Pennsylvania's
Montgomery County Intermediate Unit 23
Program for the Visually Handicapped
Severity Rating Scales Handbook

March 1991

to fit the needs of visually impaired students within Michigan

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