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Widener University Announces a New Graduate Program
Special Education: Travel Instruction
Careers in the field of Travel Instruction can be found in every city, in every state in the country. Yet the Graduate Certificate Program in Travel Instruction at Widener University is the ONLY PROGRAM OF ITS KIND. Widener University is the first institution to offer a post-baccalaureate program in this growing field. Graduates of this program are prepared to become travel instructors for school districts, public transportation entities, adult services, or rehabilitation centers. more ...
Consortium for the Educational
Advancement of Travel Instruction
Position Papers:
A Best Practice Approach
Determining Highly Qualified Travel Instructors
This paper intends to provide information
on what CEATI considers best practice for the profession of travel
instruction. As with many emerging occupations, a standard
of competence must be determined and a method for evaluating these
skills is essential. The recipients of travel instruction
and their families must have assurance that the persons providing
travel instruction is a skilled instructor. In addition,
agencies, and employers of travel instructors must have some method
for assuring the qualifications as well.
Definition: Travel instructors are professionals who teach
independent travel skills in the community which may include the
use of public transportation to persons with disabilities and seniors.
This document provides initial qualifications, specific essential
preparation requirements, and required demonstrated field competencies.
As a developing profession, it is anticipated that the next decade
will experience a tremendous growth in this field, making didactic
coursework as well as a field practicum at Universities a fundamental
and mandatory requirement for travel instructors. more
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Enhancing Professional Development through
Shared Learning
Across Disciplines
The professions of occupational therapy (OT), physical
therapy (physiotherapy) (PT), orientation and mobility instruction
(O&M),
and travel instruction (TI), have many opportunities for intersections
to occur when professionals from these fields are working with
individual clients. Most often, however, clients receive treatment
or service in discrete and unconnected fashion, even if an individual
client is receiving services from professionals in each of these
fields. We believe that collaboration among these professionals
inform and edify one another’s practice and thereby, enhance
the overall service delivery for clients.
Popular and professional writing is replete with declarations
on the benefits brought about as a result of collaborating with
someone outside one’s own field. One does not have
to look far for journal and magazine articles that tout the wisdom
of collaboration. more
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