Sensory Team

Pre-school groups - Vizzi Tots and Sensory Tots

Toddler group for pre-school aged children with a significant visual impairment

Peripatetic support for children and young people with a visual impairment aged 0-18 in the home and attending pre-school, mainstream school and special schools

Visiting Teachers of Children with a Visual Impairment provide advice, guidance and support from birth onwards working closely with hospital eye clinics. They work in homes, early years' settings, schools and colleges on request. Many children are referred in their early pre-school years and may continue to receive a service for the whole of their statutory education. The team can provide settings with in-class support, focussed intervention work, for example Braille and visual enhancement, and specialist advice and training for staff.

Adapted materials production

Team of specialist staff making specially adapted resources for children and young people with a visual impairment such as large print, Braille and tactile resources.

Habilitation Specialist

Habilitation Specialist providing independence training and life skills.

Typing skills

Touch typing skills provided by a touch typing tutor.

Curriculum Framework for Children and Young People with Vision Impairment

Supports children and young people with vision impairment access an appropriate and equitable education.

The framework presents outcomes within 11 areas:

• Facilitating an Inclusive World
• Sensory Development
• Communication
• Literacy
• Habilitation: Orientation and Mobility
• Habilitation: Independent Living Skills
• Accessing information
• Technology
• Health: Social, Emotional, Mental and Physical Wellbeing
• Social, Sports and Leisure
• Preparing for Adulthood.

https://media.rnib.org.uk/documents/CFVI_Parent_Guide_English.pdf