Visual Impairment: Access to Education for Children and Young People

ISBN-13: 9781853464126 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 465 str.

Heather Mason; Julie Stone; Heather Masion

Opis

Written for parent and professionals working with children and young people with visual impairment, this work examines the causes of eye conditions and additional disabilities; how these can restrict access to the mainstream curriculum; and ways in which the effects can be ameliorated. Central to the text is entitlement. National Curriculum areas are discussed, and attention is given to both the hidden curriculum and specialist curriculum and extra curricula activities, and to the competencies required by staff working with these children and young people.

Spis treści

Implications of a visual impairment; blindness and low vision; the child and young person with a visual impairment; the special curriculum; access to the curriculum; the mainstream curriculum; principles of access; additional disabilities.

O autorze

Heather Mason is Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. Previously she worked both in mainstream education and at Priestley Smith School, Birmingham. She has worked extensively overseas and is an OFSTED inspector. Her PhD thesis developed a new assessment tool for blind pupils, the STIP (Speed of Tactile Information Processing). Stephen McCall is a Lecturer in Special Education at the University of Birmingham, School of Education. Previously, he taught at St Vincent’s School, Liverpool and was a peripatetic teacher for seven years. He has undertaken teaching and consultancy work in Eastern Europe, Africa and the USA. He has directed funded research into literacy for touch readers and among his publications is the Birmingham Braille Course.