Support and resources
This information is from the Southend-on-Sea Vision Impairment Team.
Organisations providing support and information
- VICTA
- Look Essex
- The Amber Trust
- Sense
- RNIB
- Blind In Business
- Royal Society for Blind Children (RSBC)
- Wipe Away Those Tears
- Southend In Sight
Libraries for tactile books:
Libraries for large print books:
Useful resources
ClearVision booklets for sighted adults supporting children who are learning braille:
- Crack the Code - contains activities, puzzles and jokes which introduce the braille alphabet, simple punctuation and numbers
- A Braille Reader in the Family - booklet for parents
Both booklets are on the ClearVision website.
RNIB `Best of Both` guides to help practitioners understand the purpose, method and outcomes of each other's interventions with the children they support.
They also have 2 useful guides for education settings available free of charge to members through the RNIB Bookshare facility.
Contact the Vision Impairment team if you would like a copy at vias@southend.gov.uk