Curriculum Framework for Children and Young People with Vision Impairment

The CFVI is a high-level UK wide resource which details the key areas in which Children and young people with vision impairment (CYPVI) and their families require specialist support. It clarifies and defines the elements of specialist skill development, interventions and best practice support that are essential for children and young people with vision impairment.

The framework has been developed to help improve the outcomes for CYPVI across the whole range of abilities and needs. Three fundamental aims are at the heart of the framework:

• To help clarify and define the elements of specialist skill development, interventions and best practice support that are considered to be essential for children and young people with vision impairment;
• To assist qualified specialist practitioners in raising the awareness among other professionals and parents of the need for children and young people with vision impairment to be taught skills that enable them to access the curriculum and the wider world as independently as possible;
• To aid discussions and understanding among all involved in a child/young person’s education of how and when these skills should be taught by suitably qualified specialists and reinforced by non-specialists.

Outputs

• Curriculum Framework for Children and Young People with Vision Impairment, Second Edition
• Overview of the framework
• Appendix
• Development of a new curriculum framework for children and young people with vision impairment