Promoting Inclusion:
Shared Assesment:
Multi-Agency Planning and Practice
Presented in March, 2004
Fife Council Education Service
Service for Children with a Sensory Impairment
Partnership in Practice
A joined up Service for families
Fife Society for the Blind together with the above service.
Practical benefits
Babies
School-age children
School-age children
A well-supported child will have:
- Adapted methods
- Adapted materials
- IT equipment
- Low tech equipment
- Low vision aids
- Personal support
- Social support
- Technology skills
- Independent mobility skills
- Living skills
- Communication skills
Information sharing How?
- Review meetings
- Telephone calls
- Pro formas for standard services
- Face-to-face conversation whenever possible
Other FSB/SCYPSI advantages
Low Vision Clinic
Shared CPD
Meeting facilities
Seamless support beyond school
Post-school support
Outlook of teachers broadened
Parents are less anxious
Pupils have familiar friends still in touch