NDCS Guidance Documents on Assessments of deaf childen and young people.

The document Best Practice Guidance for Sensory Impairment in Special Schools was developed by a working group of teachers from Kent's 12 special schools for profound, severe and complex needs and Kent's STLS Sensory Service.

This was one of the workstreams established to improve the services for children and young people with sensory impairment and complex learning needs.

The document has been successfully used for four years and the Quality First Teaching section was recently reviewed by the working group.

Including the NatSIP Framework for the allocation of communication support workers (March 2018)

Produced by Workstream 1B.2 in 2015-16, this section contains the Learner outcomes framework for VI children and young people

Practitioners, researchers and consultants from RNIB, University of Birmingham, Brent Sensory Service and Positive Eye co-produced with children and young people with VI, a set of resources for teachers to use when consulting with children and young people about the outcomes that are important to them.

The resources are based on a framework organised around eight outcome categories for specialist provision for children and young people with VI, which map onto the core and additional curriculum.

The guidelines and outcome statements, in the toolkit have been developed from an original, trademarked concept created by Positive Eye Ltd and are used by permission.  They are shared with NatSIP by permission.

A report,and a full set of supporting materials are available..

A proposal to develop a new standardised braille reading test.

Report:  Pupils with a heading impairment who do not make the expected progress - recommendations to improve outcomes

A report on the factors promoting and inhibiting the successful supply of specialist teachers

Supporting the achievement of deaf children in...

A series of resources about how best to support deaf children in different educational settings