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This core module explores the potential causes of vision impairment and children’s development from conception to preschool (years 0-3). Topics taught include the developmental, social, and psychological aspects of vision impairment and the potential impact upon the child and the family around them.

The module will provide you with a range of skills and techniques to support a child with these challenges. The module explores how to incorporate the encouragement of parents and carers to know how to effectively support their child.

The module will develop understanding of the specific orientation, mobility, and independence skills that you will be able to teach early years children with vision impairment. The module addresses how to identify additional complex issues and what would be signposted to the wider team working around the child. The philosophy of the programme is based on developing specialist knowledge in relation to children and young people’s development and vision impairment. This module encourages you to look at a range of potential issues to enable appropriate approaches when working with children and young people with a vision impairment. You will learn about the importance of effective communication and the development of a strong relationship with young people, parents and others involved in their support.

This core module explores the key skills required for a successful transition into primary school for a young child with a vision impairment. This includes introducing you to a range of practical habilitation skills and techniques as well as an understanding of the physical development of the child.

This module will provide you not only with the understanding of child development before starting school- (up to age 5) and the habilitation skills and strategies required to keep that child on a par with their peers, but it will also offer an in depth understanding of school systems and requirements.

You will cover pre and early cane skills, age and stage appropriate independent living skills, strategies for learning through play and how to best to work within the UK school system, including multi agency working, practice, procedures, and legislation.

The philosophy of the programme is based on developing specialist knowledge in relation to child development and visual impairment. This module encourages you to look at a range of potential issues to enable appropriate approaches when working with children and young people with a visual impairment. You will learn about the importance of effective communication and the development of a strong relationship with children, young people, parents, teaching and support staff, and others involved in their support.

This core modules explores continuing development through the years of Middle Childhood (ages 6- 13). The topics taught will include physical and emotional development and the broad range of child development theories, puberty, sensory development, and retained reflexes, together with the skills and strategies required for a successful transfer into secondary school.

The philosophy of the programme is based on developing specialist knowledge in relation to children development and visual impairment. This module encourages you to look at a range of potential issues to enable appropriate approaches when working with children and young people with a visual impairment. You will learn about the importance of effective communication and the development of a strong relationship with young people, parents and others involved in their support.

This core module will provide you with the range of skills and techniques needed to successfully support a young person with vision impairment through their transition from statutory schooling and into the wider world of college, university, or work. Topics will include developing social and emotional skills to prepare for these changes, accessing leisure activities as well as the broad range of preparation for adulthood skills. This module will also include working with children with complex needs and wheelchair mobility.

The philosophy of the programme is based on developing specialist knowledge in relation to children and young persons’ development and visual impairment. This module encourages you to look at a range of potential issues to enable appropriate approaches when working with children and young people with a visual impairment. You will learn about the importance of effective communication and the development of a strong relationship with young people, parents and others involved in their support.

This core module explores the complexities around young people coming to terms with their vision impairment whilst dealing with potential psychological, emotional, and social issues, and the impact these may have on habilitation.

Topics will include self-care, isolation and depression and recognising when and how to signpost young people and their families to specialist support. This module will also address the range of low vision aid and electronic apps and devices that can be used to support Habilitation. The philosophy of the programme is based on developing specialist knowledge in relation to children and young persons’ development and visual impairment. This module encourages you to look at a range of potential issues to enable appropriate approaches when working with children and young people with a visual impairment. You will learn about the importance of effective communication and the development of a strong relationship with young people, parents and others involved in their support.

It is intended that by studying this module you will develop the ability to make decisions about your professional practice based upon the best evidence available. Personal professional development will be explored so that you can research and critically analyse innovative practices to improve the achievement of vision impaired and severely vision impaired children and young people. The aim is for you to draw from the evidence base to inform your future practice and that of your colleagues.

This involves being able to:

• Assess which problems, met in your professional practice, can be resolved by searching and evaluating the available evidence.
• Formulate a logical and structured approach to searching for the evidence that you need.
• Critically analyse the evidence base underlying habilitation practice.
• Differentiate and appraise the varieties of research tools, including research statistics.
• Compare and contrast your own professional practice in relation to the evidence base and the developing profession.
• Create an ongoing action plan for professional development, using the evidence base to justify areas for change.
• Competently work with and support children and young people with vision impairment.

These skills are necessary to enable lifelong learning and will help you to become a competent and autonomous Qualified Habilitation Specialist.

A minimum 20-day practice placement is required. You will have a placement mentor. They will support your placement. They will also record professional and practice competencies in relation to two separate observed teaching sessions.