Health and Wellbeing
Supporting Blind and Partially Sighted Students in Education Settings
A blind or partially sighted student can do much more for themselves when classrooms, worksheets and lunchtimes are set up with them in mind.
- 49 minutes
- 9 modules
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Arrange seating, lighting and displays to suit a student's vision
- Adapt worksheets and board work to cut glare and visual fatigue
- Use screen sharing, iPad settings and apps like Seeing AI in lessons
- Plan exam access arrangements with your QTVI well before the deadlines
- Support independence and friendships at lunch and break
About this course
Your QTVI's advice comes first, but they won't be in the room every lesson. Between visits, it's up to you to make the everyday work: where the student sits, what the worksheet looks like, how they get through a crowded canteen.
Most of the changes are ones you can make tomorrow. Favour the student's stronger side when you plan seating, and keep bright windows behind them. Limit close work to around 15 minutes before a break, never write in green on the whiteboard, and sign up to RNIB Bookshare, which gives UK schools accessible textbooks free. You'll also see how screen sharing puts the board on the student's own device, and how describing a plate like a clock face makes lunch easier.
The course is taught by a specialist teacher who lost her own sight in her late twenties, and knows both sides of the desk.
- For early career teachers, middle leaders and 4 other roles. All phases.
9 modules
Open in order
- 3 min
Introduction
- 6 min
Key people and key support
- 6 min
The environment
- 10 min
Paper-Based Learning
- 10 min
Access technology
- 5 min
Exams and access arrangements
- 7 min
Lunchtimes
- 5 min
Inclusive breaktimes
- 2 min
Wrap up