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Inclusion

Inclusion. Mainstreaming Low Vision Training. Educational Initiatives. SEN and Disability Act Primary and Secondary National Strategies Excellence and Enjoyment. Common Characteristics of Current Initiatives.

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Inclusion

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  1. Inclusion Mainstreaming Low Vision Training

  2. EducationalInitiatives • SEN and Disability Act • Primary and Secondary National Strategies • Excellence and Enjoyment

  3. Common Characteristics of Current Initiatives • Quality First Teaching : Whole Class Planning is essential to the progress of all pupils • Graduated response to the identification of and provision for individual needs for pupils who, for whatever reason are not making progress. • Access to a range of effective group and individual interventions for pupils who, in order to make good educational progress, require something more than the school’s core offer.

  4. Quality First Teaching: Vision Friendly Schools • School understands the role of the VI Service and procedures for accessing support • School and Service work collaboratively • School committed to developing capacity to meet the needs of learners with low vision. • Needs of pupils with VI are considered in whole school bids and initiatives • Reasonable environmental adjustments made throughout the school

  5. Quality First Teaching: Vision Friendly Schools • Pupil need and views taken into account as an integral part of curriculum planning. • Teaching styles are adapted to include descriptions of and opportunities for additional experiences to supplement visually mediated information • Texts are available in appropriate alternative formats in a timely manner • The learning environment is designed and maintained to be accessible to learners with low vision.

  6. Additional Needs of Low Vision LearnersFocus on Use of Vision: Time Limited Interventions School Action : What Works? 1. Activities to promote visual perception • Visual Discrimination • Visual Figure Ground Discrimination • Visual Memory • Visual Closure • Visual Spatial Relations • Visual Motor Co – ordination • Mobility and Orientation

  7. Additional Needs of Low Vision LearnersFocus on Use of Vision: Time Limited Interventions 2. Optical Functioning • Visual Awareness • Visual Attention • Visual Fixation a) eccentric viewing b) peripheral vision • Visual Focus • Visual Fusion • Visual Tracking • Visual Scanning

  8. Additional Needs of Low Vision LearnersFocus on Use of Vision: Ongoing Interventions Managing visual impairment: for the individual • Use of low vision devices • Use of non optical aids • Use of ICT and other specialist equipment • Personal and Social Development • Orientation and Mobility • Concept Development • Communication skills – oral and written

  9. Inclusive Provision ManagementMapping provision to meet needs relating to low vision

  10. Mainstreaming Low Vision Training The Way Forward • Start with the vision friendly schools document. • Work together to identify and agree strategies that promote all aspects of the use of vision • Identify which strategies can be adequately supported by non specialists – with insight. • Produce teaching materials and teacher guidance. • Pilot the strategies and build up a menu of interventions that have been shown to work.

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