Welcome to School Age Itinerant Services
(Kindergarten to 21 years old)
Curriculum: The Itinerant Program works within the general education curriculum at each student’s school to provide supports, strategies, and technology to help the student access that curriculum.
An itinerant Vision teacher is a professional who travels from school to school, providing special materials, consultation with school personnel, and individualized instruction in disability-specific skills that encompass the expanded core curriculum. This includes:
- Compensatory academic skills, including braille and communication modes
- Social interaction skills
- Recreation and leisure skills
- Use of assistive technology
- Independent living skills
- Career education
- Visual Efficiency skills
- Self-determination skills
- Orientation and mobility (O&M)
An itinerant Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist is an individual who uses a sequential process to teach students with visual impairments to utilize their senses to determine their position in space so that they are better able to move about/travel safely, confidently and independently in their environment.
Overbrook School for the Blind offers itinerant services (Teacher of Students with Visual Impairment, TVI/Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist, COMS travel to your school) for K-12 students at charter schools, private schools, and school districts in Philadelphia and the surrounding counties. Overbrook School for the Blind also offers professional outreach workshops for instructional staff, expert assessments in areas like Orientation and Mobility, Functional Vision, and Learning Media Assessments, and resource support for the Philadelphia Community. Our teachers are highly qualified and receive ongoing professional development in all areas of visual impairment as well as all state-required training.
Itinerant services are appropriate for general education students who can benefit from participation in regular class activities, who will use adapted materials and special equipment and techniques and can function as members of general education.
To learn more, contact Beth Ramella, Program Coordinator.
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