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VIDBE-Q Volume 63 Issue 4
Instructor positioning
Basic psychosocial implications of
blindness and vision loss
Occlusion experience
Recommendations for Practitioners
The following are recommendations for practitioners:
• Practitioners should use the results of this study as a framework or template for
developing and modifying their own in-service models and trainings.
• Practitioners should address the intensity of the role and level of responsibility placed
on paraprofessionals (monitoring or reinforcing) in their own itinerant service model.
• Practitioners should address whether they will adopt a supervisory role or not of
paraprofessionals in their own itinerant service model.
Recommendations for Universities
The following are recommendations for universities:
• Universities should use the results of this study to assist future practitioners with the
development and modification of their own in-service and training models.
• Universities should further develop consensus or best practices for paraeducators
based on their own research methodologies and studies.
• Universities should give thought to incorporate within their curriculum a "soft skills
foundation" necessary to facilitate successful trainings alongside the standard theory
and application of O&M.
