SEND Local Offer - Advisory Service for Vision Impairment Support
- Name
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Advisory Service for Vision Impairment Support
- Address
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Salt Way Centre
Pearl Road
Middleleaze
SN5 5TD - Telephone
- 07813 721156
- advisoryteachers@swindon.gov.uk
- Website
- Visit Local Offer webpage
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- Price
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Referral criteria must be met
- Client groups
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Families, young people, Early Years settings, schools, professionals
- Service summary
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To improve inclusive opportunities and educational outcomes for children and young people with visual impairment.
Referral criteria:
The service has an open referral system for children and young people of pre-school and school age. Most referrals are from health professionals.
A child or person who has:
- a corrected visual acuity (when wearing glasses or contact lenses) of 6/18 or worse in their better eye
- a diagnoses degenerative eye condition*
- a diagnosed, named eye condition that affects, or is likely to affect, their ability to access the curriculum
Many people may need to wear glasses or contact lenses to correct their vision to within the normal range. Such children and young people are not considered to have a visual impairment.
*if there is very low, or even no, vision in one eye, but the other eye has relatively good vision, this does not meet the criteria for involvement.
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