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Curriculum Access Service

Summary: Details of RNIB's Curriculum Access Service - confidential advice and support for education professionals.

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About us

RNIB's Curriculum Access Service offers you confidential advice and support to help you ensure that children with sight problems gain the same standard of education as their fully sighted peers. We work towards ensuring that the children you work with have access to the same resources as their classmates, whether in braille, on tape, using some form of enlarged print or by means of access technology.

  • Do you want to find the best way for a young child with sight problems to learn about maths?
  • Unsure how to get hold of a braille exam paper for GCSE music?
  • Want to find the best way to enlarge diagrams for a partially sighted 11-year-old?

Whether you are a classroom teacher, teaching assistant, support teacher, SENCO or advisory teacher let us know your query and our team of experts will endeavour to find a solution.

The services we offer

We work to formalise the provision of information and advice to professionals involved in teaching all subjects on the curriculum to a child with sight problems through:

  • an information service
  • a regular curriculum section in the RNIB's Insight Magazine
  • a range of factsheets and publications
  • a database of resources
  • information on new and existing products which can help you to teach your subject - for example do you know about products such as the talking compass and large print dictionaries?
  • forums for professionals new to the area or already working in mainstream and special school settings to get together
  • Curriculum close up website
  • subject-specific courses run throughout the academic year.

Contact us

To find out more, give feedback on our Curriculum Clipboard Website, or subscribe to our newsletter, please fill in our enquiry form. Do not hesitate to get in touch with the service in writing, by telephone or email!

Curriculum Access Service

RNIB Education and Employment Centre - West Midlands
58-72 John Bright Street
Birmingham
B1 1BN
Tel 0870 042 9554
Fax: 0121 665 4200
Email suzy.mcdonald@rnib.org.uk

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Content author: curriculum@rnib.org.uk

Last updated: 22/07/2008 10:47

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