Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBE-Q 63.4 Fall 2018

A quarterly newsletter from the Council for Exceptional Children's Division on Visual Impairments containing practitioner tips for Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments, Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and other professionals.

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40 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.

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