Using the practical advice from itinerant teachers within the US, each chapter develops strategies for working with students with visual impairments. It discusses the rights, expectations and demands of itinerant teaching, as well as the provision of services within a variety of environments.

Blind and visually impaired children experience the world in unique ways. To help them learn and develop, parents and teachers need to understand how such children relate to their environment. The authors offer practical strategies for encouraging the blind child's development and interaction. Paper edition (7700-5), $17.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A collection of biographies of blind teachers. Designed to help young people who are blind or visually impaired, their families, and the professionals who work with them learn about the wide range of employment possibilities available.

A glossary of terms completes the book."--BOOK JACKET.

This is a practical handbook about how to involve parents in schools. It faces both the problems and the opportunities. The author traces the background to parental involvement since the 1960s, discusses the current balance of power and explores ways of making schools organizations which work for, rather than against, parent-teacher partnerships. She argues that a whole school approach is important but that it will not work unless the interaction between individual teachers and parents is successful. She examines ways of improving communication between parents and teachers, particularly teachers' listening skills and how to manage in-school meetings with parents, to visit parents at home and how to facilitate the running of parents' groups.