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Curriculum Framework for Children and Young People with Vision Impairment
Curriculum Framework for Children and Young People with Vision Impairment
The Curriculum Framework for Children and Young People with Vision Impairment (CFVI) has been developed to support children and young people with vision impairment access an appropriate and equitable education.
The framework presents outcomes within 11 areas: Facilitating an Inclusive World; Sensory Development; Communication; Literacy; Habilitation: Orientation and Mobility; Habilitation: Independent Living Skills; Accessing information; Technology; Health: Social, Emotional, Mental and Physical Wellbeing; Social, Sports and Leisure; Preparing for Adulthood.
At the heart of the Framework is a set of three fundamental aims:
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 amongst 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 with as much independence as possible;
To aid discussions and understanding amongst 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.
Download a copy of the CFVI here Curriculum Framework for Children and Young People with Vision Impairment | RNIB
The term expanded core curriculum (ECC) is used in America "to define concepts and skills that often require specialised instruction with students who are blind or visually impaired in order to compensate for decreased opportunities to learn incidentally by observing others. In addition to the general education core curriculum that all students are taught, students with visual impairments, starting at birth, also need instruction in the ECC."
The term expanded core curriculum (ECC) is used in America "to define concepts and skills that often require specialised instruction with students who are blind or visually impaired in order to compensate for decreased opportunities to learn incidentally by observing others. In addition to the general education core curriculum that all students are taught, students with visual impairments, starting at birth, also need instruction in the ECC."
Click on this link to see a downloadable document that includes descriptions of the 9 areas of the ECC:
Click on this link to see a downloadable document that includes descriptions of the 9 areas of the ECC:
- Assistive Technology
- Career Education
- Compensatory Skills
- Independent Living Skills
- Orientation and Mobility (O & M)
- Recreation and Leisure
- Self-Determination
- Sensory Efficiency
- Social Interaction Skills
ECC Essentials: Teaching the Expanded Core Curriculum to Students with Visual Impairments is a comprehensive book for teachers of students with visual impairments to focus on the nine areas of the ECC that encompass the unique skills children and adolescents with visual impairments need to learn in order to access the core educational curriculum and become independent individuals, by providing the rationale, suggestions, and strategies necessary to implement instruction. The book includes learning activities that combine several areas of the ECC; information about additional resources; specific guidelines and strategies for teaching each of the nine areas of the ECC.
ECC Essentials: Teaching the Expanded Core Curriculum to Students with Visual Impairments is a comprehensive book for teachers of students with visual impairments to focus on the nine areas of the ECC that encompass the unique skills children and adolescents with visual impairments need to learn in order to access the core educational curriculum and become independent individuals, by providing the rationale, suggestions, and strategies necessary to implement instruction. The book includes learning activities that combine several areas of the ECC; information about additional resources; specific guidelines and strategies for teaching each of the nine areas of the ECC.
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