Teacher - Special Education - Orientation and Mobility

Teacher – Special Education – Orientation and Mobility

Job : 16444

Position Type: Certified Classroom Teacher – Special Education

Date Posted: 1/5/2026

Location: Special Education Department

Date Available: 07/14/2025

Closing Date: 07/13/2026

Months Contracted: 10 Months

Job Grade: Teacher

Annual Rate: $54,065 and up depending on experience

Full Time Equivalency: 0.5 FTE

Application Procedure: Apply online

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Additional Information:

Orientation and mobility (O&M) is that part of the educational process that prepares students with visual impairments to travel independently and safely. O&M is one of the nine areas of the Expanded Core Curriculum (ECC) required to be evaluated for students with visual impairments. The itinerant O&M specialist travels to the students' assigned schools and/or home to provide direct and/or consultative services relating to the visual impairment.

These services enable the students to travel safely, efficiently, and independently in their home, school, and community environments. The students range in age from birth through 21 years. The students may or may not have additional disabilities. The cognitive levels of the students range from severely impaired to gifted and talented. Many students with visual impairments are totally included in their neighborhood schools.

Others are in special programs in their neighborhood schools or at various campuses throughout the district. Community-based instruction is assumed and a critical component of the O&M program. It is often necessary for instruction to occur off-campus, so the need for transportation for this community-based instruction is important.

• Perform orientation and mobility evaluations that focus on long- and short-term needs of the student for new referrals and at intervals as designated by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
• Identify the needs and strengths of the student and an estimate of the length and frequency of service necessary to meet determined needs and include such information in the assessment report
• Contribute to other appropriate portions of the IEP, such as goals and recommendations
• Provide consultation and support services to parents, educators, other team members, and students' sighted peers
• Confer regularly with parents, classroom teachers, physical education teachers, physical therapists, and other school personnel to assist in home and classroom modifications to ensure reinforcement of appropriate O&M skills that will encourage the student who is visually impaired to travel independently in these settings and in the future
• Work with the teachers of students with visual impairments to conduct the functional vision assessment as it relates to independent travel
• Evaluate the student's progress on an ongoing basis and keep progress notes on each student
• Instruct students with visual impairments in skills and knowledge that enable them to travel independently based on the IEP
• Teach students to travel with proficiency, safety, and confidence in familiar and unfamiliar environments
• Prepare sequential and meaningful instruction geared to the student's assessed needs, IEP goals and objectives, functioning level, and motivation level.
• Be responsible for the student's safety during O&M instruction and in other environments while fostering maximum independence during O&M lessons
• Prepare and use equipment and materials, such as tactile maps, models, optical devices, pre-canes, GPS devices, and long canes for the development of O&M skills
• Provide orientation of new buildings and new class schedules to students with visual impairments as needed, including those community settings where students receive instruction
• Provide instruction based on the Expanded Core Curriculum (ECC) in the areas of concept development, gross motor skills, visual efficiency skills, sensory efficiency skills, cane skills, map skills, social skills, self-determination, independent living skills, recreational leisure skills, outdoor travel skills, residential,…