What is the Coalition’s mission?
To ensure the provision of quality education services to students who
have visual impairments or multiple disabilities in order to empower them to
achieve their highest level of independence.
What is the Coalition committed to getting?
We support inclusion but the pendulum must swing
to the middle, offering CHOICE of
mainstream or specialist schools or both.
Blind/Vision Impaired children will then have
the freedom to choose the education which is best for them: specialist,
mainstream or a combination of both. Typically a young child will learn life
skills and feel at home in a blind school and then make the transition to
mainstream when it is right for him/her.
A new blind school offers current mainstream children the chance to enrol full time or part-time
into this new blind school if they are struggling in the mainstream so that
they can gain the skills and confidence they need before returning to the
mainstream.
By the beginning of school
year 2010, a fully functioning specialist Educational Facility must be provided for students who are Blind/Vision
Impaired with or without additional needs, with access to core curriculum and
expanded core curriculum and necessary therapy services
•
New specialist school for
the blind and vision impaired with or without other disabilities
• Centre of excellence for
•
Part- to full-time
enrolment with flexibility to suit individual needs
•
Primary, secondary &
youth/adult transition (residential option)
•
**Extended Core Curriculum
(specialist education and life skills)
•
Mainstream Classroom
Teacher & Aide short training courses (PD) as no specialist teacher
training is available in Victoria
•
Funding
•
State Government
• Federal Government
• $15 M from Vision Australia from
the sale to developers of RVIB school properties estimated to have totalled
over $50 M
Services to
be carried over from the Burwood school where possible:
- Reverse integration
- Multi-disciplinary assessment
- Feelix Library – early childhood pre literacy
education
- Specialist subjects – art, music, PE and library
education designed to engage students who are blind or have low vision,
essential learning in a holistic education and areas of specialisation in
which many students find their main strengths, interests and indeed passions
- Support skills – students in mainstream schools
receive ongoing support and upskilling in key areas of extended core
curriculum
- Residential Training (short or long term) for
non-metropolitan students
- Education Resource Centre. Student and library
for teaching, specialists and therapy staff.
- Orientation and Mobility (O&M)
- Independent living skills (ILS)
- Technology
- Social skills
- Braille/Other Formats
- Visual Efficiency
- Compensatory and Functional Academic Skills
- Career Education
- Leisure and Recreation
- Specialist subject areas:- Music, Art, Physical
Education, Library
Inner suburban central location supporting
mainstream-school-based satellite locations. Co-located with a special or
mainstream school or at a new standalone site.
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