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Class teaches students how to help blind, visually impaired people

By Christopher Gibbs | April 25, 2011

DeKalb | Advanced orientation and mobility teaches students who are studying to enter the special education field what it’s like to be blind by walking around NIU campus with goggles that obscure vision.  Eric Sticken, orientation and mobility specialist,...