ABSTRACT
The consortium formed a management committee of senior managers whose task was to co-ordinate and delegate responsibility for the development of the whole programme. A project team of qualified teachers and assistants was appointed to implement the provision and was based at the Regional Advisory and Assessment Centre located within the non-maintained special school. Advice and support were given by the project team in different ways: in the classroom, day nurseries, coffee mornings for parents, and home visits made with members of the project team along with teachers from the school. The regional provision provided by a consortium approach appears to have been a positive and confidence-boosting way forward for developing expertise with children within this low-incidence disability. Teachers within the region have benefited from the dual sensory impairment-related professional development offered by the consortium and there have been resulting improvements in practice.
