O&M National Agenda

Orientation and Mobility

National Agenda

Overview of the National Agenda:

Goal 1. Students and their families will be referred to an appropriate education program within thirty days of identification of a suspected visual impairment.

Goal 2. Policies and procedures will be implemented to ensure the right of all parents to full participation and equal partnership in the education process.

Goal 3. Universities, with a minimum of one full-time faculty member in the area of visual impairment, will prepare a sufficient number of educators of students with visual impairements to meet personnel needs throughout the country.

Goal 4. Service providers will determine caseloads based on the needs of students and will require ongoing professional development for all teachers and orientation and mobility instructors.

Goal 5. Local education programs will ensure that all students have access to a full array of placement options.

Goal 6. Assessment of students will be conducted, in collaboration with parents, by personnel having expertise in the education of students with visual impairments.

Goal 7. Access to developmental and educational services will include an assurance that instructional materials are available to students in the appropriate media and at the same time as their sighted peers.

Goal 8. Educational and developmental goals, including instruction, will reflect the assessed needs of each student in all areas of academic and disability-specific core curricula.

Goal #8 address the need for O&M instruction, as part of the core curriculum for visually impaired children.
The National Agenda (2004), formerly published as A Report to the Nation, AFB, Copyright 1998.
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