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Positive Eye runs its own publishing house and during the last 18 months since the company was established, has sold guides and resources to over 60 local authorities in the UK and overseas. All the guides other than the postive steps pack which is jointly written with Gail Bailey, have been written by Gwyn McCormack from Positive Eye, based on her expeience of running a peripatetic support service and working with children and young people with visual impairment.
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Positive Eye has developed a range of products that can help you complete your day-to-day work with ease. Our products include policies, tool kits and provision plans to cut down time and therefore save money from writing them yourselves. They will improve service provision and efficiency and start from only £20.
available now ......quality standards mapping guide + audit tool for
services supporting children and young people with sensory
impairments. Cost £180 for both parts (p&p £9.75)
or to purchase individually £95 (p&p £8.00)
This mapping guide, originated from work commenced by Helen Forbes-Low, Team Leader for Harrow Children’s Sensory Team, Harrow Council. Helen undertook the task of mapping the Quality Standards for Education Support Services for Children and Young People with Visual Impairment (DfES 2002) to the sixteen standards set out in the Quality standards for Specialist teaching and support services for deaf children and young people (2009).
Positive Eye has been delighted to work with Harrow Children’s Sensory Team and thanks them for the opportunity to build on the work already commenced to create ‘The Quality Standards Mapping Guide.’
About the ‘Quality Standards Mapping Guide’
The guide has two purposes:
1.To illustrate where the following three sets of quality standards map to the Quality standards for Specialist teaching and support services for deaf children and young people (2009) (adapted for CYPSI)
The three sets of quality standards are:
| Quality Standards for Education Support Services for Children and Young People with Visual Impairment DfES 2002 |
Quality Standards in Education Support Services for Children and Young People who are Deafblind/Multi Sensory Impaired (SENSE 2003) |
Quality Standards: Delivery of Habilitation Training (Mobility and Independent Living Skills) for Children and Young People with Visual Impairment (January 2011)
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2. To provide an audit/self evaluation framework mapped to the quality standards as stated above.
The guide is divided into two folders:
Folder 1 – Quality Standards Mapping Guide
Folder 2 – Audit/self evaluation tool mapped to the quality standards.
The early years making and
measuring a difference pack: £175
This guide maps the developmental journal for babies and young children with visual impairments to the early years foundation stage. It also supports Services by offering a structure and aframework to demonstrate the difference their specialist interventions are making to the child. It is a comprehensive guide, which enables the professional to map the development of the child's progress towards reaching their early learning goals, year on year.
The introduction from the guide is available if you would like to read more.........
(this guide replaces the Early Years Mapping Guide previously available from positive eye. )
self reflection and training resource - Who's in the driving seat?'
£65
Self reflection and training resources for professionals working with children and young people with visual impairments These materials are designed to offer the professional a method of reflecting upon the way in which they deliver support to maximise a child’s independence. The reflection can be completed by either an individual, by a group of professionals working with one particular child, .
The aim of the self reflection materials are to provide the professional, group or team with a method of demonstrating how their role is effective in maximising the child’s independence. Completion of a target chart supports illustration of this enabling identification of the areas for review and development that are required to increase the child’s independence.
Further review through completion of this activity at a later date, supports the professional in illustrating the difference their support has made in maximising the child’s independence.
The resources are also designed so that they may be used as training materials to enable a whole team approach to be taken to consideration of their role in maximising the child's independence. There are copies of the materials in A4 and A3 all of which are included on the CD. Hardcopy versions of each resource within the pack are included in the A4 pack.
Cost of resource pack = £65 + postage and packing
Pack includes hardcopy (A4) and CD (A4 and A3 versions of the self reflection and resource materials.)
activity pack - supporting social skills - Thumbs up! £50
Thumbs Up!
This practical resource offers the professional a range of activities to support the development of social skills in young people with a visual impairment.
The activities are aimed at secondary age young people and have been developed for delivery through a ‘Circle of Friends’ approach. They are short activities designed to be delivered to small groups of young people with a visual impairment. The activities are fun and light hearted, and support the development of the young person’s skill in adopting for themselves and understanding in others, appropriate body language, facial expressions and use of voice tone during conversations.
Cost of activity pack = £50 + postage and packing
(Pack includes hard copy of each acitivy on A4 and copy of each activity on CD.)
toolkit: positive steps - building strengths in children and young
people with visual impairment by Gail bailey and gwyneth mccormack
price - £95
Positive steps is a toolkit designed for use by professionals working to support children and young people with visual impairments. I had originally written and published 'Support for Me' (some packs still left for sale while stocks last). I then met and joinedn forces with Gail Bailey who has carried out research into the emotional well being of chilldren and young people with a visual impairment. This pack combines all the elements of 'Support for Me' in a more stream lined version plus new elements from Gail including a set of strengths card she has developed to help children recognise their strengths and enduring qualities. Additionally there is also a new section - 'Positive Steps Forward,' to be used alongside the strengths cards and 'support for me' elements. The aim of this section is to. help the child or young person to plan their own goals,and a simple framework to help them work out who can help them achieve them. .The toolkit puts the child or the young person at the forefront of their planning and reveiw of theirsupport.A teacher of VI from the Cambridgeshire Visual Impairment Team has used 'Support for Me' and comments:"I've used it a few times with some Secondary age students and it has worked really well. To be honest, I tend to use it as a springboard for a good discussion about what works and what needs changing. I really like the positive questions/statements."The toolkit is sold as hardcopy and on CD to enable anynecessary adaptations to be made for the children using the pack.
a useful Proforma pack - only £10
for teachers of visual impairments this pack includes the following and is sold on CD - enabling access record, weekly planning meeting record, home visit record, individual access record, example of a report framework, example of INSET slides for delivery of training on needs of child to a school, classroom observation record.
Quality first teaching - creating vision friendly classrooms - £10 per pack
Pack 1: For class teachers quality first teaching - a self assessment - creating vision friendly classroom environments for all children: Cost £10 + p&p. The pack offers: tips and strategies for vision friendly classrooms, checklist for teacher to assess if their classroom environment and teaching strategies are inclusive and vision friendly for all children. check list for teacher to reflect on teaching approaches used if they have a child with a visual impairment in their class. A set of subject strategy tips for maths, literacy, geography, science, art and pe.
Pack 2: a simple self assessment for teachers and teaching assistants of children with visual impairments - supporting quality first teaching and vision friendly inclusive practices:( If you are teacher of VI you wouldn't need to also purchase pack 1. )
the pack offers: tips and strategies for vision friendly classrooms, checklist to offer to the class teacher to assess if their classroom environment and teaching strategies are inclusive and vision friendly for all children. check list for teacher to reflect on teaching approaches used if they have a child with a visual impairment in their class. checklist for the teacher of visual impairments/teaching assistant to reflect and assess if they are promoting inclusive practices and independent access A set of subject strategy tips for maths, literacy, geography, science, art and pe. Cost £10 + p&P
Customer feedback for sensory support services - £50 + P&P
A simple and easy to use customer feedback system to support Sensory Support Serv ices in gathering information on the delivery of services to children, parents and carers, schools and early years settings and partnership services. It has questionnaires for each of the above areas with simple and easy to complere spreadsheets to collate data gathered from each stakeholder group.
Price: £50.00 + £2.00 p&p
About the pack
The pack is provided in both hard copy and on CD to enable questionnaires and spreadsheets to be completed electronically.
Part 1:
The pack offers four simple questionnaires (customer feedback forms) which are aimed at stakeholders within four areas of service delivery:
- Children and young people
- Parents/Carers
- Schools and early years settings
- Partnership services.
Part 2:
On receipt of the customer feedback forms, collation of results and responses is offered via a simple set of spreadsheets, ready formatted to input the information.
Part 3:
The final part offers the opportunity to collate the more individual responses made to the statements or questions which are also included on each questionnaire. A simple chart to collate the responses for each statement or question posed within each area is provided.
Supporting appraisial for teaching assistants of v.i. - £95
This guide has been written for teaching assistants and learning support assistants who work with children with visual impairments. It offers support to the professional at appraisal time. The guide aims to help them recognise their skills and from this to set meaningful and appropriate objectives. It also aims to help them to identify observation situations which exemplify the support and input that they provide and which contributes towards the child’s progress and inclusion.
