1. Final call for Home Access

... significant visual impairments, physical disabilities or learning difficulties, could eventually benefit from the programme through receiving specially tailored packages suited to their individual needs. ...

2. Sensory adventures

... classrooms which are curtained to create a room for pupils with visual impairments. The pupils have sensory programmes written for their particular needs and visual stimuli are provided through the use ...

3. Are blind children born to be musical?

... the Institute of Education, London, who carried out the study with Christina Matawa of the Wandsworth Visual Impairment Specialist Teaching Service. The study found that 48 per cent of the blind children ...

4. Blind World Cup comes to England

The Football Association (FA) will host the 2010 IBSA World Blind Football Championships at The Royal National College (RNC) for the Blind in Hereford. The Championships will take place in the RNC's new, ...

5. National deafblind awards

At a ceremony in London in October, the national deafblind charity, SENSE, presented its Sense Awards, recognising people for campaigning, volunteering and working for deafblind people. The calibre of ...

6. Service directory for deafblind people

UK charity Sense has launched The Deafblind Directory which allows deafblind people and their carers to search for service providers ranging from interpreters to support workers. The charity is keen to ...

7. Accessible textbooks for the visually impaired

... safe layout of the classroom, it is vital to think also about the learning resources used during the lesson. If curriculum materials are provided in an accessible format, a pupil with a visual impairment ...

8. Accessible text books pilot project

The DCSF have announced the appointment of a consortium to run a pilot project which aims to transform access to textbooks for blind, partially sighted, dyslexic and other children who cannot read standard ...