Consortium for the Educational Advancement of Travel Instruction - CEATI

01/19/2024

What nice write up from Point Park University on my collaboration with them this school year as one of my last endeavors before retirement...

"This is the real-world, hands-on experience that students cannot learn while sitting in a classroom. While the learning that goes on in the classroom is important, students have an opportunity to take the theory and put it into practice."

11/10/2023

Hello fellow Travel Instructors, we have been developing an updated website and contact information.

Check us out:

ceati-travelinstruction.org

179 Rehoboth Avenue
Unit 26
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19976

[email protected]

03/16/2023

Travel Instruction Conference...

05/19/2020

The Travel Instruction Conference for October 2020 has been canceled due to the uncertainties of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Look for online seminars/training sessions later in 2021

04/10/2017

A letter from an attendee at the CEATI conference and now a new board member for the organization...

“Takin’it To The Streets”
2016 CEATI National Conference

To all those that didn’t make it to Las Vegas for the conference I wanted to say you missed a great
opportunity to improve and expand your knowledge base of independent travel. While I am relatively
new to the world of Travel Training, I have been training people who are blind how to travel
independently for over 30 years, cane, dog didn’t matter let’s just get people moving. This was my first
conference dealing strictly with travel training and I couldn’t help but see the cross over and
interdependent methods that Travel Training and O&M share. There is much each discipline can gain
from each other to make us all better instructors or service providers. There were some great sessions
for organizations/people like me looking to provide services in a new market or create a program and I
could spend a good deal of time discussing them. However, my interest has always been in ways to
improve safety in travel, so I took particulate interest in a session by Dr. Gene Bourquin on “Influencing
Drivers and Reducing Street Crossing Risk: What Research Tells Us”. This was some solid research that
took some of the conventional O&M thoughts and methods and showed how they could be improved to
create safer crossing scenarios. I would encourage anyone that trains people on the streets to seek this
research out, it had great value. All in all, one of the better conferences I have ever attended. I am
making sure what went on in Vegas does not stay there, came back with some great ideas and
knowledge and intend to share it with my team at Leader Dog.

Regards Rod Haneline CPSO, VP Leader Dogs for the Blind

03/16/2017

The board of CEATI would like to announce three new board members to the organization. They are as follows: Michael Culver, Rod Haneline, and Donna Wolf. Welcome!!!

08/18/2016

As you know, CEATI is having their conference “Takin’ It to the Streets: Skills to Further Enhance your Practice of Travel Instruction” at the RTC Mobility Training Center, Las Vegas, NV
October 21-22, 2016.

CEATI is honored to have Anthony A. Anderson as our keynote presenter at the 2016 conference. Mr. Anthony practices law with an emphasis in public transit which includes experience in the ADA. His session will “…explore the approach to public transit pre and post ADA, focus on the accessibility of our public bus and rail systems, and generally address the obligations placed on businesses and public entities....”

Look for more detailed information on this upcoming conference here on facebook.

Check out our webiste for more information and to register for the conference. Its not too late!!!

08/08/2016

Great News!!

As you know, CEATI is having their conference “Takin’ It to the Streets: Skills to Further Enhance your Practice of Travel Instruction” October 21-22 in Las Vegas Nevada.

The great news is that thanks to the generous support of MV Transportation, Transdev and RTC of Southern Nevada, we will be able to keep the registration fee at the Early-Bird rate of $125! This fee includes a light breakfast and lunch on both days, and a 3-day transit pass good on all RTC transit vehicles.

Check out the program and reserve your seat now by registering online at www.ceati-travelinstruction.org

CEATI was created to enhance through education the knowledge and skills of those professionals who are teaching travel skills to persons with disabilities and seniors. CEATI pledges to provide skill development through in-service courses and published papers. Members of the Board of Directors includ...

05/23/2016

RTC Mobility Training Center, Las Vegas, NV
October 21-22, 2016

Agenda, registration materials and hotel information
are available on CEATI web site.

Earn ACVREP credits -- CEATI is a RPPLE provider.

Below is a list of sessions & speakers. Check back for updates and additions.

Keynote & General Sessions:
•“The American with Disabilities Act – 25+ Years of Providing Freedom”. Anthony A. Anderson, JD
•“Boots on the Ground: 13,140 days as a career Travel Instructor and Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist or Why my Hair Turned White at 30”. Lydia Barden Peterson, MS, COMS, Travel Instructor
•“Influencing Drivers and Reducing Street Crossing Risk: What Research Tells Us”. Gene Bourquin, Ph.D.

Concurrent Sessions:
•“Travel Training Technology…Using Numbers to Work Smarter, not Harder” Jim Shampoe & Danielle Silva
•“How to Improve Mobility, Remove Barriers and Expand Transportation Options” Jim White, The Arc of Ventura County
•“Angela’s House, An Innovative Approach to Blindness Skills Training” Jean Peyton & Franchesca Soriano, RTC
•“Super Powers Within You: Developing Skills to Feel Safer in the Community” Susan Olsson, St Paul Public Schools
•“Travel Instruction and Travelers who are Deaf” Gene Bourquin, Ph.D.
•“The Relationship Between Travel Instruction and Orientation and Mobility” John Ford & Bonnie Dodson-Burk
•“Establishing a Successful Travel Training Program – The Importance of Knowing Your Target Audience” Mike Culver, Tricia Avila, Mobility Management Partners (MMP)
•“Developing Community Partnerships in Public Schools…Training as a Pathway to Independence” Joy Scott Clark, RTC
•“The Guided Discovery Method of Instruction: Students as Active Participants in the Learning Process” Michelle Holsopple
•“Roundtable: Travel Instruction and Orientation and Mobility” John Ford
•“In-Person ADA Functional Ability Assessments” Anne Chairsell, OTR/L RTC
•"The Future of Autonomous Transportation" Brian Hoeft, Director of the Freeway & Arterial System of Transportation, RTC
•“Risk Management in Travel Training – How Do You Prepare for Emergencies in the Field?” Mike Culver, Tricia Avila
•"The Stranger Approach as a Benchmark for Independent Travel" Caitlin Devonshire, M.Ed., Deleware County Intermediate Unit
•“Traffic Engineering 101-Signalized Intersections” Bonnie Dodson-Burk and Michelle Holsopple

We hope you will join us in Las Vegas! Space is limited to 100 Attendees
Early Bird registration rates available through July 31, 2016