Allied Instructional Services

Vision Impaired

What Do Teachers of The Blind and Visually Impaired Do?

Teachers of the Blind and Visually Impaired (TBVI’s) provide diagnostic and instructional services for students with visual impairments and act as a liaison with community services. This is an instructional position, as opposed to a related service or vision therapy. The itinerant teacher for students with visual impairments travels to the students' assigned schools to provide direct and/or consultative special education services relating to vision loss. These services enable the students to learn in a variety of settings. The cognitive levels of the students range from severely impaired to gifted and talented.

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Orientation Mobility

What is Orientation and Mobility?

O&M teaches movement with a purpose. Purposeful movement may not occur naturally for children with a visual impairment. O&M skills enable child to safely explore and interact with the world, including home, school and community. When children understand their environment they feel safe. O&M instruction provides real experiences essential to all children. The skills learned reduce isolation by giving students a “common ground” for interacting with family, friends and future employees.

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Deaf/Hard of Hearing

Allied Instructional Services Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Allied Instructional Services Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services provide a wide range of educational support services to students who are deaf/hard of hearing. All Deaf/HH educational staff are credentialed to meet Virginia Department of Education requirements.

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Occupational Therapy

What Does an Occupational Therapist Do?

Occupational therapists help children with the “job” of being a student. Through remediation, accommodations, and adaptations, they help teachers make sure that students’ skills are a match with the demands of the classroom and school, to ensure that all students can participate with their classmates and benefit from their education. OT’s assess and address motor skills, sensory needs, and visual perception. They also help the team with assistive technology needs, and may help staff use sensory strategies to help with behavior or social skills.

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Physical Therapy

What Do Physical Therapists Do?

Physical therapists make sure that children can move about in their school setting, playground, bus and anywhere else that students go. Their role is to ensure that children with PT needs have full physical access to all aspects of their school life.

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Assistive Technology

What is Assistive Technology?

Assistive Technology (AT) is specialized hardware and software equipment used by students with disabilities to increase their ability to participate in tasks of learning and daily living skills and functions as independently as possible. AT ranges from low tech (pencil grip) to high tech (laptop computers to ipads) that can be applied to adapted toys, mobility and seating devices, augmentative communication aids, personal computers and modifications, environmental controls and vocational adaptations.

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Speech Language Pathology

What is Speech Language Pathology?

Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) help children improve engagement and achievement so that they meet the academic and social performance standards of their environment. SLPs do so through interventions that increase functional communication skills, as it relates to fluency, speech production, language, cognition, voice, resonance, and auditory habilitation/rehabilitation. Services are provided to increase the student’s functional communication of wants and needs within the school environment.

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Accessibility

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Welcome to AIS

Thank you for visiting Allied Instructional Services. We are a company led by educators providing high quality, cost effective services to low incidence populations within the public school setting.

We work in partnership with local special education directors to ensure that the students we serve receive appropriate, affective high-quality educational services.

All members of our administrative team come from special education backgrounds and are committed to seeing that all students succeed.