On this mini site, you will find a library of resources from NCW teachers and other professionals created for teaching children and young people with a vision impairment
NCW is a school and college for children and young people who are blind or vision impaired. All our teachers are subject specialists, as well as qualified teachers of the vision impaired (QTVIs) or studying towards the qualification. Our staff collectively have years and years of experience teaching young people who are vision impaired and part of our charitable remit is to offer free and low cost training and outreach services to other professionals teaching young people with a vision impairment in mainstream settings.
The framework presents outcomes within 11 teaching areas:
Facilitating an Inclusive World (CF1-FIW)
Sensory Development (CF2-SD)
Communication (CF3-C)
Literacy (CF4-L)
Habilitation: Orientation and Mobility (CF5-OM)
Habilitation: Independent Living Skills (CF6-ILS)
Accessing information (CF7-AI)
Technology (CF8-T)
Health: Social, Emotional, Mental and Physical Wellbeing (CF9-H)
Social, Sports and Leisure (CF10-SSL)
Preparing for Adulthood (CF11-PA)
How to find useful information on this site
This mini site should offer you resources via searching for key words or the code for each area of the framework (Eg CF1). Simply type in a key word or the code using the magnifier symbol at the top of this page. Alternatively, if you want to investigate what resources are available for a particular subject area e.g. Maths, then hover over the Home button at the top of the page and it will dropdown a menu from which you can click on the subject area to find what resources are available.