Persons with this endorsement may provide orientation and mobility services to students with visual impairments from birth through age 21. “Visual Impairment” includes blindness, low vision (legal blindness and partial sight) and vision loss associated with other disabilities.
Endorsement Requirements: This endorsement program requires a minimum of 36 graduate semester hours in special education coursework including:
- Nine (9) graduate semester hours in general special education; and
- Twelve (12) graduate semester hours in the education of students with visual impairment; and
- Twelve (12) graduate semester hours in orientation and mobility; and
- Three (3) graduate semester hours in orientation and mobility internship.
Endorsement Program Requirements: Standard institutions of higher education offering this certificate program must have on file, within the institution, a plan which identifies the courses and the course completion requirements which the institution utilizes to grant credit toward completion of this endorsement.
Extracted from Nebraska Department of Education Rule 24 Regulations for Certificate Endorsements Title 92, Nebraska Administrative Code, Chapter 24