Mobility Specialist

6 months ago


Springfield, United States Springfield Public Schools Full time

***Open Until Filled***

The Mobility Specialist is responsible for evaluating and providing educationally-based mobility and orientation services to visually impaired students with Individual Education Programs in the schools.

  • Serves as a resource to school staff members in the development of a balanced program to promote visually disabled students’ social and academic skills for school success .
  • Provides an individualized education program to meet individual needs of visually disabled students.
  • Assists and guides teachers in the understanding of visual impairments and the use of appropriate classroom and environmental accommodations.
  • In conjunction with a medical eye doctor’s report, provides a thorough assessment and diagnosis of visual disabilities.
  • Assists in appropriate referrals of visually impaired individuals to agencies and specialists in the community as necessary.
  • Collaborates with classroom teachers and other school staff members to implement appropriate accommodations and intervention strategies in the classroom pertaining to visually disabled students’ social, visual, and academic enhancement.
  • Provides information, support, and counseling to parents and families when appropriate in a multicultural and multilingual setting.
  • Provides in-service education and serves as a consultant to teachers and school staff members related to promoting school success for visually disabled students.
  • Keeps thorough ongoing records, including a medical eye doctor’s report, for the individual students receiving educationally-based vision and/or orientation/mobility services.
  • Maintains lists of referred, screened, and eligible students, as well as a directory of outside agencies, consultants, specialists and related services.
  • Compiles case history date on those cases where additional family history, health history, early developmental history, and environmental history are deemed appropriate.
  • Assumes primary responsibility for requisitioning and maintaining needed equipment and devices for visually disabled students who are Braille and non-Braille users and learners.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE JOB:

(Minimum requirements)

  • Maintains and manages a caseload comprised of visually disabled students in the schools.
  • Works collaboratively with the Evaluation Team Leader and school team to develop educationally based IEPs for visually disabled students.

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Masters Degree as a Mobility and Orientation Specialist
  • State Certification as a Mobility and Orientation Specialist



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