Visual Impairment

Access to Education for Children and Young People

Heather Mason, Stephen McCall, Christine Arter, Mike McLinden, Juliet Stone

• Publisher: David Fulton Publishers
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781138148239
• eBook ISBN: 9781136605413
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

First published in 1998. This book embodies the positive philosophy that children with a visual impairment are entitled to access to the full national curriculum during their school years. In the UK, education placements for pupils and students with special needs range across a continuum from special schools and colleges, with day or residential attendance, to specialist units or individual integration into mainstream provision. Placement results from inter-disciplinary assessment and consultation and requires parental agreement. Lack of sight and measurably impaired vision constitute special needs in educational terms. The writers who have contributed to this major text are teachers and lecturers from both the specialist and mainstream areas of provision and have considerable first-hand experience in teaching pupils and students with a visual impairment.

Index

Page numbers in italic indicate an illustration, figure or table on that page.

accelerated speech 146–7

accommodation 40, 91

achromatopsia (cone dystrophy) 41

active listening 146, 328–9

active listening 146, 328–9

activity holidays, addresses for 308–9

adaptations for specific subjects 200–201

adapting the curriculum 100–102

additional disabilities 107, 266, 401 see also multiple disablilities and assessment 76

schools for 8–9, 17

and visual impairment 81–2, 311, 315, 317, 428

adult support 182

ADVISE (Art and Design Visual Impairment Special Education) 300

advisory teachers 11, 397–8 see also peripatetic teachers and families 402–3

role of 398–402

and schools 403–4, 407–10

skills of 404

training of 405–6

advocacy 117, 119

Affective Communication Assessment (Coupe et al.) 329, 331

affordance 338–9

akinetopsia 348

albinism 37, 41–2, 307

alternative communication 332, 334

Analysis of Reading Ability (Neale) 52, 80, 81, 155

aniridia 42

appropriation 341

art and design 289–98

Art and Design Visual Impairment Special Education (ADVISE) 300

Assessing Commu...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Dedication
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Education, provision and contemporary issues
• Blindness and low vision
• The Child and the Young Person with a Visual Impairment
• The special curriculum
• Access to the curriculum
• The Mainstream Curriculum: Principles of Access
• Children and young people with multiple disabilities and a visual impairment
• The role of the specialist teacher
• Teacher education
• References
• Index