Scottish Sensory Centre

NEW VI Toolkits: Practical guidance to maximise access to the curriculum through specialist skills acquisition

This practical and easy to access guidance is intended to support parents and carers as well as the wide range of professionals who may be involved in the lives of children and young people with visual impairments, including Qualified Teachers of Visual Impairment, teachers of visual impairment in training and Qualified Habilitation Specialists.

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Professional Learning

April 2025 onwards


Braille Competency Courses: for sighted learners to support individuals with visual impairments

Distance Learning

2nd Sep 2025


Picture Books as Sensory Stories

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Webinar

9th Sep 2025


'VICTA' information session

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Webinar

29th Oct 2025

with Sight & Sound Technology

Accessible Formats in Focus

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10am-3.30pm

Edinburgh

2024-25 events

SSC News

Consultation open: Guidance on appropriate qualifications and teacher competencies for teachers of children and young people who are blind or partially sighted, deaf, or deafblind (Scottish Government)
Consultation website
BSL video about the consultation.

Words in Hand: We have digitised and conserved the SIGN 1-10 video series.

It is a treasure trove of Storytelling, Jokes and Teaching notes which can still help those learning BSL.

Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Extant's plans for this year's festival marks the first time a venue (ZOO) will be fully accessible for visually impaired audiences and highlights the company's dedication to increasing the number of accessible shows.

Introducing our BSL glossaries OCR have developed a new resource that integrates our BSL glossary signs with their qualifications.

CRIDE 2024 reports for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales (in English and in Welsh) are now available on the NDCS website.

SmartSense Blog: Torø Graven has been working with SSC on this blog 'on and for the senses'. Alongside articles based on lived experience and research, we publish activities to stimulate and challenge the senses.

SSC eBulletin: May 2025

Research

Would you like to find out more about new advances in knowledge regarding Sensory Impairment?

Our colleagues working in research across the world are constantly adding to this knowledge. We are here to help you to find out about new ideas.

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BSL Glossary

SSC's BSL Glossary team have collected and created British Sign Language Terms for Curriculum Topics: Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Mathematics and Physics. And now the award-winning topics Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science.

Includes examples and laboratory clips for students of science subjects.

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Events and Video Archive

Missed an event? We have materials and recordings from a number of professional learning courses available to view on our website.

Recordings and materials are available from a number of SSC professional learning events and webinars.

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Resources

We have a number of publications and resources produced as part of our many projects are freely available on our website: from our Play DVDs to How Good is Our Sensory Service? document launched in May 2019.

Materials are also available from a number of SSC professional learning events and webinars. We also host the SAVIE (Scottish Association of Visual Impairment Education) website.

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