positive eye consultancy service

Positive Eye offers a consultancy service to professionals who are working with children and young people who are visually impaired within mainstream educational - school, further and higher education - settings.

The type of consultancy that can be provided includes:

• Supporting and advising a new Head of Service in their role.

• Supporting a local authority in setting up service provision to meet the needs of the children and young people with visual impairments within their area.

• Supporting the establishment of a new Service - setting up policies, protocols and systems with which to run and meet the needs of the children on the caseload.

• The provision of support, training and advice to a school, college or university on the needs of a specific child or young person with a visual impairment within their setting.

Consultancy from Positive Eye is tailored to meet your specific budget and requirements and is offered to you in a framework of 3 stages.

Stage 1 - Understanding the brief and preparing a plan

• A fourty five minute, initial meeting (face to face/phone) to enable you to outline your brief, plus date/s will be set for the consultancy session/s. (Initial meeting or phone call free).

• Following the initial contact - a simple plan will be prepared to address your brief.

Stage 2 - Consultancy session/s

• Using the plan as guidance, the brief will be addressed over the period of the consultancy.

Stage 3 – Action plan/feedback

• According to the need, at the end of the consultancy period, an action plan/report/summary will be produced for your use. If required, further sessions can then be booked and a further brief outlined developed and met.

 

We can develop and deliver bespoke courses on visual impairment to meet the individual training needs of your service, organisation or business.

Similarly to the consultancy work, Gwyn would initially discuss your needs with you in a face to face/ phone meeting and from this a plan for the bespoke training can be developed with time built in for you to review the course content before it is delivered.

Once the training package is agreed training dates can be booked and the courses delivered to your staff, providing them with the skills and knowledge to enhance the productivity of your service, organisation or business.

If you are interested in booking us to deliver bespoke training for your service, organisation or business please contact Gwyn on 07947 571 559 or email gwyn@positiveeye.co.uk

Bespoke training for professsionals in schools and services

Tailor made delivery to suit your audience and budget.

This is a 20 hour course is aimed at assisting the mainstream teacher and teaching assistant to develop a more in depth understanding of how to meet the needs of a child with visual impairment in their class. It would also be suitable for teachers of VI and teaching assistants of VI, who are new to the role.   Areas covered on the course include:  reasons for sight loss, the barriers to access, strategies for access, and impact of sight loss on the child’s early development, the barriers and the strategies to enable access for different curriculum areas; social and emotional inclusion; the roles and responsibilities of the professionals involved with the child, amongst other aspects. Each component of the course is supported with a range of interactive activities and handouts. Opportunities to use a range of resources, and to plan lessons and adapt curriculum materials and tasks are also provided during the course.

if you are interested in Positive Eye presenting this course within your local authority, then individual 1 hour  modules from the full course menu can be chosen to create a bespoke delivery of a length to suit your budget and the needs of your audience. For more information regarding the specific modules please contact gwyn@positiveeye.co.uk

Overview of course