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What is the Director Assistant Approach?<br />

• Sighted counterpart, usually not a student in the science class
• Can be volunteer or paid position
• Familiar with all laboratory safety procedures
• Only performs instructions given by blind student as to what tasks to carry out.
• Blind student must ask for observational feedback
• The assistant only intervenes when a safety protocol is compromised.
• Limitations of this approach is that it expects the blind student to be an expert and to have the knowledge-base needed to oversee a subordinate, which is not always the case.
• (Miner, 2001)