The professional association NVO, the Association of Educationists in the Netherlands, is a national professional association. It aims to assure and advance the quality of its member educationalists’ professional practice, and to represent their interests in a way that is recognisable. NVO’s members comprise over 6.500 academically trained professionals, supported by a permanent office in the city of Utrecht in the heart of the Netherlands. In the Netherlands the profession of ‘(ortho)pedagoog’ (educationalist or remedial educationalist) is a discipline in its own right. Educationalists’ academic training is separate from that of psychologists and is offered by specific faculties at six universities. The ‘(ortho)pedagoog’ focuses on educational and developmental disturbances and learning and behavioural disorders. His or her subject includes the child, the parents, the school, and other professional or non-professional educators.