Vision Impairment Service Overview:
Our Specialist Education Services for the Vision Impaired provides advice and support for children and young people aged 0-19 with a vision impairment, their parents/carers, settings and schools. The Service team consists of Qualified Teachers of the Vision Impaired, a Habilitation Specialist, giving advice on getting around safely and how to make environments accessible, and an IT Specialist, to advise on how technology can help and to offer training. Team members visit wherever the child or young person is as well as providing information by telephone, email and our website.
The Service provides:
• Initial information, advice and guidance to parents
• Assessment of how a child is managing their vision impairment and how they might best be supported to achieve best outcomes
• Appropriate support following assessment and monitoring of progress, including advice on how to access the curriculum and exams
• Supporting parents with pre-school children at home, which could include advice on creating a sensory environment at home and which toys are suitable for younger children
• Advice to educational settings, which could include using large print books and Braille materials
• Advice on technology and how this can help – including assessment, recommendations and training on suitable software and hardware
• Orientation and mobility training, encouraging children and young people to independently and safely move and explore their environments, engaging in road safety training, long cane training and public transportation use
• Environmental audits of educational settings to make recommendations on adaptations needed to the physical environment
• Training and workshops to raise awareness about vision impairment and how best to support children and young people with a vision impairment on our caseload.
Vision-Impairment (ID 1034)
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Useful Links
Useful Links
Useful Links
Please see links below to various resources for vision impairment
The Vision Impairment Outreach Team has compiled a list of fun resources for vision impaired children
UEB ONLINE ACCESSIBLE BRAILLE TRAINING
The purpose of the UEB Online website is to provide systematic instruction and accreditation in UEB for people worldwide who are teaching and promoting braille for persons with blindness, low vision, and deafblindness.
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If you are the parent of a child who is blind or partially sighted, or a young adult aged 29 or under who is visually impaired, VICTA is here to help.
ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE OFBLIND PEOPLE (RNIB)
A UK charity that offers information, support, and advice to almost two million people in the UK with sight loss.
ROYAL SOCIETY FOR BLIND CHILDREN (RSBC)
The Royal Society for Blind Children offers a range of services including emotional support and practical advice for families, opportunities for children and young people to build confidence and skills through activities, and a specialist further education college.
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Referrals
Referrals
Referrals
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Habilitation
Habilitation
Habilitation
Orientation and Mobility Training
Orientation and mobility training teaches children and young people how to travel safely in familiar and unfamiliar environments. Training will increase the child’s confidence and prepare them for future independent travel.
Orientation and mobility skills should begin to be developed ininfancy, starting with basic body awareness and movement and into adulthood, using skills that allow a person to navigate their world efficiently, independently and safely.
What skills are taught?
- Sensory awareness: gaining information about the world through hearing, smell and touch.
- Independent movement: which includes crawling, rolling, walking etc.
- Sighted guide: using another person to aid in travel
- Self-protective techniques: using the natural extension of arm and hands which provide added protection in unfamiliar areas
- Mobility devices: such as use of various canes, cane skills, and cane techniques
- Route training: such as the safest route to the local shops, travel from home to school
- Orientation in a new school
- Public transport travel
- Safety and level of independence are the key issues inorientation and mobility training.
- The Habilitation Specialist also undertakes environmental audits in educational settings.
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IT Service
IT Service
Information Technology (IT)
IT Service
- Flourish Specialist Education Services specialises in I.T. assessments for vision impaired students
- The assessments usually take place at the student’s school.
- Students are assessed to help identify their access to both the school network user account and their access to the interactive whiteboards using various I.T. equipment and software.
- A professional I.T. report is then produced and sent to the school.
- The report will advise on the recommendations and any necessary changes required to be made in order to make I.T. more accessible to the students.
- Training is available thereafter if required.
- We will also work with the school’s I.T. department to create an adapted bespoke school network user account and establish a link from the interactive white board directly to the student’s screen.
- We can also set up the recommended hardware and software as well as providing the necessary training for the pupils and staff, creating specific and specialised user manuals for the training sessions.
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Eye Condition Sheets
Eye Condition Sheets
Eye Condition Sheets
This area will list documents from the FSES/Vision_Impairment/Eye_Condition_Sheets folder.
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ACHROMATOPSIA
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- ALBINISM download_for_offline
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- ALSTROM-SYNDROME download_for_offline
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- AMBLYOPIA download_for_offline
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- ANIRIDIA download_for_offline
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- APHAKIA download_for_offline
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- ASTIGMATISM download_for_offline
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- ASTIGMATISM-EARLY-YEARS download_for_offline
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- CATARACTS download_for_offline
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- CEREBRAL-VISION-IMPAIRMENT-CVI download_for_offline
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- COLOBOMA download_for_offline
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- DIABETIC-RETINOPATHY download_for_offline
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- DOWNS-SYNDROME download_for_offline
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- DUANES-SYNDROME download_for_offline
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- FEVR download_for_offline
- FLASHERS-FLOATERS download_for_offline
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- GLAUCOMA download_for_offline
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- HEMIANOPIA download_for_offline
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- HYPERMETROPIA download_for_offline
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- IRITIS download_for_offline
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- KERATOCONUS download_for_offline
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- LAURENCE-MOON-BARDET-BIEDEL-SYNDROME download_for_offline
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- LEBERS-CONGENITAL-AMAUROSIS download_for_offline
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- LOWE-SYNDROME download_for_offline
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- MICROPHTHALMIA download_for_offline
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- MICROPHTHALMIA-SCHOOL-AGE download_for_offline
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- MYOPIA download_for_offline
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- MYOPIA-PRE-SCHOOL download_for_offline
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- NOONANS-SYNDROME download_for_offline
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- NYSTAGMUS download_for_offline
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- NYSTAGMUS-EDUCATIONAL-CONSIDERATIONS download_for_offline
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- OCULAR-ALBINISM download_for_offline
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- OPTIC-ATROPHY download_for_offline
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- OPTIC-NERVE-HYPOPLASIA download_for_offline
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- PAPILLOEDEMA download_for_offline
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- PHOTOPHOBIA download_for_offline
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- PTOSIS-aka-BLEPHAROPTOSIS download_for_offline
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- RETINAL-DETACHMENT download_for_offline
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- RETINAL-DYSTOPHY download_for_offline
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- RETINITIS-PIGMENTOSA-RP download_for_offline
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- RETINOBLASTOMA download_for_offline
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- RETINOPATHY-OF-PREMATURITY download_for_offline
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- ROD-CONE-DYSTROPHY download_for_offline
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- STANDARD-VISION download_for_offline
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- STARGARDTS-DISEASE download_for_offline
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- STICKLER-SYNDROME download_for_offline
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- STRABISMUS-Squint download_for_offline
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- USHER-SYNDROME download_for_offline
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- UVEITIS download_for_offline
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Early YearsEarly Years
Early Years
ResourcesDeaf Support Referrals
- ALBINISM download_for_offline
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ACHROMATOPSIA
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