Experience Inc. Jobs

POSITION GOAL:

Under general supervision and working as a member of the vision team, performs a variety of Braille translation and transcribing activities to provide support to the vision team and programs for students with visual impairments.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Implement instructions from the Teacher Consultant for the Visually Impaired with individual students.
2. Maintain a basic awareness of the needs of students who are Braille readers, including an awareness of how students who are blind or visually impaired learn and how vision teachers will use the Braille materials.
3. Maintain familiarity with reference books in both Unified English Braille code and Nemeth Code.
4. Create and/or translate curriculum for students (individualized to each student) into Braille.
5. Create and/or translate all academic documents needed for students.
6. Manually produce hard copy Braille with a Perkins Braille Writer.
7. Develop and maintain relationship with all teachers of student(s) on caseload.  Communicate regarding materials needed and progress in curriculum.
8. Ability to support instructional strategies for teaching Braille and early literacy skills.
9. All other duties assigned by St. Joseph County Administration.
10. Produce and emboss Braille documents using both Braille translation software (Duxbury) and Perkins Braille Writer.
11. Transcribe teacher consultants' teaching materials into Braille for students learning the Braille and Nemeth Code.
12. Interline Braille documents and Braille textbooks.
13. Support Braille and Nemeth Code instruction.
14. Adhere to the St. Joseph County ISD policies and procedure.
15. Complete assigned responsibilities within agreed upon or established time lines.