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Resources for Children & Young People With a Vision Impairment
Guide Dogs have lots of information on their website to support children and young people with vision impairments, including these resources:
Nursery Rhyme Classics for children with a vision impairment to move and groove to, with suggested specific movements and actions for each song, helping your child learn more about their bodies and how they move – https://www.guidedogs.org.uk/getting-support/help-for-children-and-families/early-years-development-and-habilitation/nursery-rhyme-songbook/
Learning Through Play Resources containing information, guidance and activities, to help support a child with a visual impairment’s early years development through play. These resources are broken down into age ranges starting from birth, covering 5 key development areas (concept development, sensory skills, fine &gross motor skills, self help & independence and communication skills) and can easily be done at home, using everyday items – https://www.guidedogs.org.uk/getting-support/information-and-advice/learning-through-play/
iPad Learning Resources for people with a visual impairment, including how to set up the accessibility features, for sensory impairment and also some for physical disabilities, as well as guidance on using apps etc – https://www.guidedogs.org.uk/getting-support/information-and-advice/how-can-technology-help-me/tech-for-all-learning-programme/
Down and Ards & North Down LPG Fortnightly News – Issue 56
Welcome to the 56th edition of the fortnightly newsletter for Locality Planning Groups in Ards, North Down & Down.
(Note: Newsletter will download directly to your device. Look out for the pop-up box and click on open file when it appears).
As increased cost of living hits, we would like to share information on services promoting emotional, social and financial support for struggling families. Please share with your contacts.
If you wish to advertise any upcoming programmes or activities, please see the guidance on the back page.
NHSCT Health & Wellbeing Officers Win Runner Up in the 2022 NHSCT Chairman’s Awards
NHSCT Health and Wellbeing Officers have won Runner up in the 2022 NHSCT Chairman’s awards – Population Health and Wellbeing for their work on the NSPCC PANTS Campaign.
For the past two and a half years, NHSCT Health and Wellbeing Officers have worked with NSPCC and partners to roll out the NSPCC PANTS Campaign across Northern Trust area.
The NSPCC PANTS Campaign aims to empower parents and professionals to have age-appropriate conversations with their children 4-8 years to prevent or stop sexual abuse through training, resources, and activities co-ordinated by NSPCC and Northern H&W Officers. They planned to launch the campaign Spring 2020. Despite the pandemic, redeployment and staff changes over the last two and a half years they have trained 683 staff, given every school and pre-school setting PANTS resources, information and PANTS library books, and reached 7952 children with the PANTS message.