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The Deaf Education and Vision Education Program Visiting Teacher Services provide specialist educational support aligned to individual educational need through tiers of service that may involve:
- direct teaching
- consultation (including modelling and provision of recommended educational adjustments)
- professional learning provision
- targeted support.
The Visiting Teacher assists teachers, school communities and families with developing teaching and learning adjustments for students with vision impairment, hearing loss or dual sensory loss. In addition, where needed, the Visiting Teacher works with the student on a tailored teaching and learning program to support development of specific skills related to the relevant internationally recognised Expanded Core Curricula. Our holistic approach means that we actively collaborate with other agencies, as needed, to strengthen educational outcomes.
Deaf Education Visiting Teacher Service
The role of the Deaf Education Visiting Teacher of the Deaf may involve:
- making recommendations on teaching and learning adjustments
- planning for individual communication and language priorities
- providing communication opportunities for students and their families in spoken English and Auslan
- teaching relevant areas of the Expanded Core Curriculum for Students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing (to address identified areas of specialised need) such as:
- Audiology
- Language and Communication
- Functional Skills for Curriculum Access
- Social and Emotional Skills
- providing opportunities for schools and parents to recognise the effects of hearing loss on development and learning to support enhanced outcomes.
Visiting Teacher Service
Deaf Education
Vision Education Visiting Teacher Service
The role of the Vision Education Visiting Teacher may involve:
- making recommendations on teaching and learning adjustments, including minor works and disability adjustments
- teaching relevant areas of the Expanded Core Curriculum for Students with Vision Impairment (the essential learning areas, concepts, and experiences that are unique to students with vision impairment) such as:
- Compensatory or Access Skills, e.g. braille, accessing print, tactile graphics
- Career Education
- Independent Living Skills
- Orientation and Mobility
- Recreation and Leisure
- Social Interaction Skills
- Self-Determination
- Assistive Technology
- Sensory Efficiency Skills
- assisting in the development of emergent literacy and numeracy
- assessing the needs of students to ensure provision of the most appropriate and accessible educational resources
- providing opportunities for schools and parents to recognise the effects of vision impairment on development and learning to support enhanced outcomes.
Visiting Teacher
Vision Education
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As SSEN: S educational programs and services are government funded, they will be provided at no cost to the school, parents, or guardians of eligible students with hearing loss, vision impairment or dual sensory loss.
At SSEN: S it is our mission to ensure every child with hearing loss, vision impairment or dual sensory loss achieves to their full potential.
