ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |20 pages
Education, provision and contemporary issues
part |1 pages
Blindness and low vision
part |1 pages
The Child and the Young Person with a Visual Impairment
part |1 pages
The special curriculum
part |1 pages
Access to the curriculum
part |2 pages
The Mainstream Curriculum: Principles of Access
part |1 pages
Children and young people with multiple disabilities and a visual impairment
part Chapter 32|11 pages
Children with Multiple Disabilities and a Visual Impairmente
part |1 pages
The role of the specialist teacher
part |8 pages
Teacher education