ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to explore the considerations that administrators planning teaching service need to have in mind. Itinerant teachers based at the school support children with visual impairments in ordinary schools and use the equipment and resources housed in the special school to support their work throughout the region. Planners need to decide whether itinerant teachers should be deployed at primary or secondary schools, or at both levels. Special schools can offer a wide range of specialist equipment and colleagues with expertise in all aspects of education. It may even be possible for children supported by the itinerant teacher in mainstream classes to visit the school for some special purpose such as a complex visual assessment, or to learn a special skill. In countries which are beginning to develop universal education for children with visual impairments, the system must make the maximum use of the few trained personnel who are available.
