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Children with vision impairments

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Service Aims

The VI Service aims to ensure equal access to education for pupils with a vision impairment and endeavours to equip young people with strategies, skills and knowledge that promote independence in learning and life.
 

Working in Partnership

The Vision Impairment Service works in partnership with families and schools offering support, advice and information regarding vision loss. We liaise with professionals such as Orthoptists, Ophthalmologists, Integrated Services for Children with Disabilities Team (CWD), Pupil Support Services, Portage, Educational Psychologists and other agencies*.

*with permission, in line with GDPR guidelines.

Tameside Vision Impairment Service
Ryecroft Hall
Manchester Road
Audenshaw
M34 5ZJ
 
Phone: 0161 342 4029
Emailsensory.supportservice@tameside.gov.uk
For adult vision impairment service please contact: 0161 922 4888

www.tameside.gov.uk

 

VI Offer

https://www.tameside.gov.uk/TamesideMBC/media/Children/VI-Local-Offer-2021.docx 
 

VI Leaflet

https://www.tameside.gov.uk/TamesideMBC/media/Children/VI-service-leaflet-(2).docx
 

RNIB eye conditions

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See how Perkins School For The Blind adapt worksheets for CVI.

Adapting worksheets for CVI – Perkins School for the Blind



Visually impaired football festival.

Free event.
July 25th 2024.



Tameside Music Service.

Infant, junior and youth choirs.
Weekly rehearsals during term time.
Birch Lane Centre, Birch Lane, Dukinfield.
Regular concert performances around Manchester.

Choir love performing with us
 

Ben Andrew’s BETTER PLACES
Better Places are a series of picture books to help children think about how places can be made better for disabled people.
 
The first book in the series is Better Places Nicky and Candy's Street and explore the barriers blind and visually impaired people might face with the opportunity for the reader to put them right.
 
As well as the books, Ben Andrews, author of Better Places, who is also visually impaired, school visits to deliver interactive readings of his books, question and answer sessions with students and lesson plans on how we can make places better in the real world. 
 
If this would be of interest to you, you can learn more about Better Places, buy the books and book author visits at www.betterplaces.uk.
 

VICTA Young Achievers Award
Be the best you can!
If you are aged 10 years old and under, from January 2023.
January to March – Science
April to June – Nature
July to September – Community
October to December – Create
Find out more about VICTA Young Achievers Award
 

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