VIPS Visits IU Occupational Therapy Class

November 10, 2025

Sheila Klopfenstein, Indiana Education Lead and Teacher of the Visually Impaired, and Michelle Flora, Blind/Low Vision Specialist, spent the day with students from the Occupational Therapy Department of IU’s School of Health & Human Services, sharing information about VIPS and how early intervention helps children with blindness or low vision and their families. The students had fun completing various tasks while wearing simulation goggles. The goggles give wearers a sense of what it’s like to experience blindness and low vision. They also learned how vision issues affect learning and how to identify behaviors that may indicate blindness or low vision.

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Four volunteers from TWG sit at a the work table in the FRC making birthday cards.
A female OT student is holding up a coloring worksheet and trying to read it while wearing simulation goggles.
A female OT student sits at a table, holding alphabet blocks while wearing simulation goggles.
Two female OT students take a selfie while wearing simulation goggles.
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