Visually Impaired Learner Initial License or Endorsement Program
The Visually Impaired Learner Program provides an initial license or endorsement to work with students who have blindness or visual impairments. With an authorization of birth-21, students will achieve the competencies to deliver services in both public school and specialized school settings. The primary focus of the program is prepare candidates to teach needed skills that are associated with blindness and to adapt and modify general education curriculum to insure accessibility for students.
For current prerequisites, please see: http://www.pdx.edu/sped/prerequisites-and-tests-vil
Requirements
Courses
| SpEd 509 | STE I Visually Impaired | 3 |
| SpEd 509 | STE II Visually Impaired | 3 |
| SpEd 510 | Legal and Ethical Foundations | 3 |
| SpEd 520 | Collaboration I: Families and Community - EL and EI/SE | 3 |
| SpEd 521 | Behavior Management in the Classroom | 3 |
| SpEd 525 | Student Teaching | 6-15 |
| SpEd 540 | Education of the Visually Impaired Learner | 3 |
| SpEd 541 | Implications of Vision Problems of Children/Youth | 3 |
| SpEd 542 | Assessment of the Visually Impaired | 3 |
| SpEd 543 | Reading and Literacy - Visually Impaired Learners | 3 |
| SpEd 544 | Methods of Teaching Academics: Visually Impaired Learner | 3 |
| SpEd 545 | Orientation and Mobility/Life Skills | 3 |
| SpEd 546 | Braille I | 3 |
| SpEd 547 | Braille II | 2 |
| SpEd 575 | Braille III/Technology for the Visually Impaired | 3 |
| SpEd 576 | Visually Impaired Learner with Additional Disabilities | 3 |
Total Credit Hours: 56
Adding a VIL endorsement to a non-provisional teaching license may vary by state and type of current license held but is approximately 42-50 credits.