My 2 thoughts:<br>1. I agree with Wendy - The reality is that to cut costs, we are now seeing more nurses aides, physicians
assistants, nurse practitioners, OT & PT aides, there has been talk
of O&M instructional aides. <br>2. Broad-brush statements about aides being good or bad aren't necessarily productive as they certainly don't apply to all situations. If an aide is deemed beneficial by that student's IEP Team (which should include the parents & at least 2 VI professionals - the TVI & O&M instructor) & a particular aide is not providing appropriate support, then they need to be properly trained. One of the problems is that there is no standard training program for aides - it may be left up to the non-VI district professionals or the TVI. Based on our experience, most of the aide training does not happen beforehand, but rather "on the job" in piecemeal on-the-fly. If an aide is trained properly, they are more likely to be an asset, particularly in mainstreamed settings where the TVI may only be at the students school a few times a week.<br>
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On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Ellen Lopez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eflopez@icoe.org">eflopez@icoe.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">
<a href="mailto:pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org" target="_blank">pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org" target="_blank">pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Wendy Molle<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, October 13, 2011
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:pibe-division@nfbnet.org" target="_blank">pibe-division@nfbnet.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [Pibe-division] The
Problem with TOO Much Help</span></font><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Just so you know
TVIs cost <b><b><u><font face="Tahoma"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">a
lot</span></font></u></b></b> more than aides. (For our districts
services, we can get, at a minimum, 8 hours of aide time for the price of 1
hour of TVI time.) If school funding is cut, in many cases it will be the
TVI time that is cut. No contest! The only exception will be
students with strong parent advocates. In these tough fiscal times
districts make some tough calls that we may all not agree with, but that is
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Wendy Molle<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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