{"id":161,"date":"2021-02-05T15:20:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T15:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/leeds-loc\/?page_id=161"},"modified":"2021-02-05T15:20:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T15:20:30","slug":"children-with-low-vison","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/leeds-loc\/children-with-low-vison\/","title":{"rendered":"Children with Low Vison"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Children with Low Vison<\/h1>\n<div class=\"downloads_panel\">\n<div class=\"float_left\"><strong>&#8220;Low Vision Children Missing Out on their Education Support&#8221;<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A recent multidisciplinary meeting of people working in visual impairment has heard that many children are slipping through the net and not being brought to the attention of Education Officers.<\/p>\n<p>The Education Leeds Visually Impaired Team consists of teachers trained in the teaching of visually impaired children and young people.\u00a0 They provide support at home and at school from birth to school leaving age.<br \/>\nIf the child does not fall within the Education Leeds Catchment they will still take the details and pass them on to the relevant authority.<\/p>\n<p>Optometrists are urged to take note of the services available, the referral criteria (below) and forward the children\u2019s names to Education Leeds, even if they are under the HES.<\/p>\n<p>Referral Criteria for Involvement (one or more sufficient)<\/p>\n<p>The child should<br \/>\n1.\u00a0Present an identifiable ophthalmic condition which has the potential to interfere with development and learning<br \/>\n2.\u00a0Distance acuity of 6\/18 or worse<br \/>\n3.\u00a0Near acuity of N14 or worse<br \/>\n4.\u00a0A restriction in the field of vision<br \/>\n5.\u00a0Problems in scanning, depth perception, tracking, colour perception, habd-eye coordination or contrast sensitivity<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children with Low Vison &#8220;Low Vision Children Missing Out on their Education Support&#8221; A recent multidisciplinary meeting of people working in visual impairment has heard that many children are slipping through the net and not being brought to the attention of Education Officers. The Education Leeds Visually Impaired Team consists of teachers trained in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/leeds-loc\/children-with-low-vison\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Children with Low Vison&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-161","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/leeds-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/leeds-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/leeds-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/leeds-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/leeds-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/leeds-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/leeds-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/leeds-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}