Supporting Itinerant Service Delivery: The
Provincial Resource Program Experience in
British Columbia
Adam Wilton, MA, COMS
Manager, Provincial Resource Centre for the Visually
Impaired
Vancouver, BC, Canada
awilton@prcvi.org
From coast, to coast, to coast, most students with visual impairments in
Canada are educated in inclusive settings and are served by itinerant
personnel (Zuvela, 2009). As the education portfolio falls largely under the
purview of individual provincial Ministries of Education, there are jurisdictional
variations in the continuum of service delivery options available to students
across the country (Dworet & Bennett, 2002). In British Columbia (BC), the
prevailing placement option is in general education classrooms receiving
service from an itinerant teacher of students with visual impairments (Zuvela,
2009). Inclusion has a long history in BC, dating back to the closure of the
Jericho Hill School for the Blind in 1978. That same year, the provincial
government established the Provincial Resource Centre for the Visually
Impaired (PRCVI). PRCVI supports public school districts and independent
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