VIDBE-Q 2026 Volume 71 Issue 2
Katie Ericson, Texas Tech University, katherine.ericson@ttu.edu
Mackenzie Savaiano, University of Nebraska – Lincoln,
msavaiano2@unl.edu
Target
audience: TSVIs, O&M specialists, administrators
"It's a lot." -Participant
With an ongoing shortage of teachers of students with visual impairments
(TSVIs), orientation and mobility (O&M) specialists, and dual-certified
professionals working in both roles, these professionals are often tasked with
serving high numbers of students with diverse needs. As such, administrators often
adopt a caseload approach when assigning students to teachers, a model that
considers only the number of students who require special education or related
services (Meador, 2015). For example, if a district employs two TSVIs/O&M
specialists and there are a total of 36 students who require special education
Workload Management for Itinerant Special
Educators
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