News tagged Visual impairment
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Online learning in a pandemic era: Visually impaired students’ perspectives on accessibility
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Visual impairment Online learning
  • Apr 28, 2022
Scotland: Call for more teachers specialising in visual impairment
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Scotland Specialist teachers Multi-sensory teachers Visual impairment
  • Apr 5, 2022
Scotland: Teachers needed amid surge in sight impaired pupils
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Scotland Visual impairment Specialist teachers Attainment gap
  • Apr 5, 2022
Scotland: Call for more teachers specialising in visual impairment
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Scotland Visual impairment Specialist teachers
  • Apr 5, 2022
Ignored: 80% of colleges fail on legal requirement to inform the visually impaired on accessibility
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Visual impairment Accessibility
  • Nov 22, 2021
Free glasses to boost literacy skills among poor pupils
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Visual impairment Literacy Reading
  • Sep 27, 2021
Free glasses to tackle poor eyesight and boost literacy
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Literacy Reading Visual impairment
  • Sep 23, 2021
Glasses in Classes scheme rolled out to boost literacy
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Literacy Reading Opportunity areas Visual impairment
  • Sep 23, 2021
Pupils in six areas of England to get free glasses under new government scheme
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Visual impairment Reading Literacy
  • Sep 23, 2021
Thousands more pupils to be given free glasses in a bid to boost literacy
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Reading Literacy Visual impairment
  • Sep 23, 2021
The dramatic rise of myopia in young people
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Myopia Visual impairment
  • Aug 27, 2021
Online focus group: Sight loss and visual impairment study - employment outcomes
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Visual impairment Employability
  • Feb 3, 2021
Grammar school discriminated against visually impaired child, tribunal finds
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Grammar school Visual impairment Discrimination
  • Sep 9, 2020
Support needed in school for pupils with sight loss
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Pupil support Visual impairment
  • Aug 28, 2020
Positioning children with a vision impairment as knowledge producers and change agents
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Visual impairment
  • Jul 30, 2020
We must remove barriers for visually impaired pupils
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Visual impairment
  • Jan 13, 2020
Funding cuts take toll on support for visually impaired pupils
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Visual impairment Funding Special needs SEND Pupil support
  • Oct 22, 2019
Blind University of Glasgow student 'faced reading list discrimination'
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Visual impairment Discrimination University of Glasgow
  • Aug 28, 2019
Our vision is for Scottish pupils with sight difficulties to succeed in school
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Visual impairment Scotland Pupil performance
  • Jun 4, 2019
Lego launches Braille Bricks to make reading more fun for blind children
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Braille Lego Visual impairment
  • Apr 24, 2019
Lego's Braille bricks could be a game-changer for visually impaired kids
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Braille Visual impairment Lego
  • Apr 24, 2019
Royal National College for the Blind sells off part of campus in funding crisis
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Visual impairment Colleges Campus Funding Finances
  • Apr 9, 2019
Glasses in school scheme to aid pupils' reading
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Visual impairment Reading Maths
  • Feb 13, 2019
450 schools and colleges wanted to take part in ‘Glasses in Classes’ and four other new trials
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Visual impairment English Maths Reading
  • Feb 8, 2019
Ark English mastery programme and ‘glasses for classes’ scheme get EEF trials
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English Visual impairment Academies MATs English mastery
  • Feb 8, 2019
Glasses for pupils scheme aims to improve maths and literacy
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Maths Literacy Visual impairment
  • Feb 8, 2019
Apple launches new programme to teach blind children in the UK how to code
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Visual impairment Coding Programming
  • Jan 24, 2019
The impact of wearing glasses on early literacy
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Literacy Visual impairment Eye tests
  • Jun 26, 2018
New figures show attainment gap remains for vision impaired pupils
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Visual impairment Attainment Attainment gap
  • Jun 20, 2018
Early years staff 'should ensure children are checked for eye problems'
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Eye tests Visual impairment Nurseries Childcare
  • Jun 15, 2018
Early years staff 'should ensure children are checked for eye problems'
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Eye tests Visual impairment Nurseries Childcare
  • Jun 15, 2018
Eye tests 'could help 1 in 10 children to read'
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Eye tests Visual impairment Literacy
  • Jun 15, 2018
Call for children's eye tests to improve literacy
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Visual impairment Literacy
  • Jun 15, 2018
Give young children eye tests to improve their literacy, as one in ten may have undiagnosed conditions
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Eye tests Literacy Visual impairment Nurseries Childcare
  • Jun 14, 2018
Sweating the small stuff
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Literacy Eye tests Visual impairment Nurseries Childcare Primary
  • Jun 14, 2018
Long-term education causing short-sightedness
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Visual impairment
  • Jun 7, 2018
Bad news, pupils: studying damages eyesight
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Visual impairment
  • Jun 7, 2018
Too much time in the classroom causes short sight, research shows
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Visual impairment
  • Jun 6, 2018
Short-sightedness increases with every year in education
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Visual impairment
  • Jun 6, 2018
Blind and deaf children suffering due to national teacher shortage, claims charity
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Special needs Visual impairment Deaf Teacher shortages Specialist teachers Scotland Mainstream schools
  • Apr 24, 2018
Mainstream schools don’t work for many vision-impaired children
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Visual impairment Special needs Disability SEND Mainstream schools
  • Mar 22, 2018
Doubling in pupils with visual impairments sparks 'urgent' call for extra support
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Special needs Visual impairment Student support Equality Scotland SEND
  • Mar 6, 2018
PRIME 2018: Building diversity in law
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Diversity Visual impairment Widening access Social mobility Disadvantaged Law Work experience
  • Feb 15, 2018
Scotland: Sight loss must not hold our children back
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Visual impairment Special needs Student support
  • Feb 8, 2018
Prince Henry’s Grammar School wins Premier Farnell tech challenge with pill dispenser for the visually-impaired
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Grammar schools Awards Technology Skills competitions Visual impairment
  • Dec 20, 2017
Ofqual accused of ‘refusing to engage’ with colour-blindness
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Schools Week Ofqual Exams GCSEs A-levels CVD Visual impairment
  • Oct 13, 2017
Tips for teaching visually impaired students
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NAHT Teaching Visual impairment
  • Sep 18, 2017

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