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Including Children with Visual Impairment
client:
Action For Inclusion Team
project:
Including Children with Visual Impairment in Mainstream Schools
the brief:
Recent research shows that one in 500 school children have a visual impairment. Action for Inclusion, along with Birmingham City Council's Team for Children with Visual Impairment, wanted to produce a resource for teachers to help these students integrate in mainstream schools.
iceni had previously delivered a series of critically acclaimed programmes for Action for Inclusion covering autism and hearing impairment. We were approached to create this new training DVD to demonstrate key strategies that can be used immediately to fully include children with a visual impairment.
creative strategy:
As well as being a useful resource for teachers of the visually impaired, the DVD also had to be accessible to people with a visual impairment. This involved recording an audio description option on the DVD, and creating all menus and graphics in large, high contrast fonts. Following RNIB guidelines, and building on our work with the Disability Rights Commission, iceni created 'talking menus' for the DVD allowing the content to be accessed by all.
On every project, not just when working with children and people with disabilities, iceni take care to adhere to strict ethical guidelines. All our crew have CRB Enhanced Disclosure, and our production teams make sure that consent forms are obtained from all participants and/or parent/guardians.
The programme features five visually impaired children who are successfully included in mainstream schools, each with different conditions and support needs. iceni followed the children during a normal school day, in a variety of different lessons, to see what provisions have been made by teachers and support staff to ensure that they can access the curriculum. We talked to staff, parents and specialist support teams who have made appropriate adaptations, and significantly improved each child's experience of school. The children themselves also gave frank testimonials of the challenges they face and the support they receive.
As part of the project, iceni incorporated resource documents onto the DVD in a DVD-ROM section. This provides teachers and support staff with a printable reference section for independent use.
the result:
Co-ordinator of the Team for Children with Visual Impairment, Sue Johnson, said: "It is imperative that schools are kept up to date with help that is available for such youngsters.
"Two previous projects which dealt with autism and hearing impairment were extremely successful and, as soon as funding became available, we wanted to build on this promising start by highlighting visual impairment."
Cathy Bentley, Director on the project said: "iceni is committed to producing visual communications that makes a difference, and the Action for Inclusion series has proved to be both fascinating and rewarding for everyone involved, as well as receiving acclaim from end users."
The DVD was launched at a training event in Birmingham at the end of March.
client:
Action For Inclusion Team
project:
Including Children with Visual Impairment in Mainstream Schools
the brief:
Recent research shows that one in 500 school children have a visual impairment. Action for Inclusion, along with Birmingham City Council's Team for Children with Visual Impairment, wanted to produce a resource for teachers to help these students integrate in mainstream schools.
iceni had previously delivered a series of critically acclaimed programmes for Action for Inclusion covering autism and hearing impairment. We were approached to create this new training DVD to demonstrate key strategies that can be used immediately to fully include children with a visual impairment.
creative strategy:
As well as being a useful resource for teachers of the visually impaired, the DVD also had to be accessible to people with a visual impairment. This involved recording an audio description option on the DVD, and creating all menus and graphics in large, high contrast fonts. Following RNIB guidelines, and building on our work with the Disability Rights Commission, iceni created 'talking menus' for the DVD allowing the content to be accessed by all.
On every project, not just when working with children and people with disabilities, iceni take care to adhere to strict ethical guidelines. All our crew have CRB Enhanced Disclosure, and our production teams make sure that consent forms are obtained from all participants and/or parent/guardians.
The programme features five visually impaired children who are successfully included in mainstream schools, each with different conditions and support needs. iceni followed the children during a normal school day, in a variety of different lessons, to see what provisions have been made by teachers and support staff to ensure that they can access the curriculum. We talked to staff, parents and specialist support teams who have made appropriate adaptations, and significantly improved each child's experience of school. The children themselves also gave frank testimonials of the challenges they face and the support they receive.
As part of the project, iceni incorporated resource documents onto the DVD in a DVD-ROM section. This provides teachers and support staff with a printable reference section for independent use.
the result:
Co-ordinator of the Team for Children with Visual Impairment, Sue Johnson, said: "It is imperative that schools are kept up to date with help that is available for such youngsters.
"Two previous projects which dealt with autism and hearing impairment were extremely successful and, as soon as funding became available, we wanted to build on this promising start by highlighting visual impairment."
Cathy Bentley, Director on the project said: "iceni is committed to producing visual communications that makes a difference, and the Action for Inclusion series has proved to be both fascinating and rewarding for everyone involved, as well as receiving acclaim from end users."
The DVD was launched at a training event in Birmingham at the end of March.