Eligibility Criteria
Support Services
Referral Procedures

Eligibility Criteria
Visiting Teachers support students who are blind or have low vision in all year levels from Prep to Year 12 within the Department of Education and Training. Students in the Catholic Education Office schools are also supported.
A student is eligible for support from a Visiting Teacher if she/he has sufficiently low vision to be regarded as partially sighted (i.e. distance vision with glasses, if needed, worse than 6/18 and/or visual field reduction to less than 20 degrees) or is legally blind. An assessment at the Educational Vision Assessment Clinic based at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital determines eligibility for Visiting Teacher support.

Support Services
Visiting Teachers support students and schools in a variety of ways. The following shows examples of some of the ways in which Visiting Teachers offer this support:

• Assessment: e.g. evaluating the most appropriate learning media for the student, i.e. braille, large print, audio, or electronic access to the curriculum or a combination of these
• Program Planning: e.g. assisting the school to develop indiviual programs for  students e.g. a program to teach braille
• AdaptiveTechnology and Equipment: provide information about low and high tech solutions for day to day problems.
• Disability Awareness: Raise awareness of the student's needs by providing information about the student's vision impairment to teachers, class members and the wider school community
• Consultancy to Support Groups: e.g. provide consultancy to schools in areas such as VCE Special Provision

• Parents
• School Nurse
• Principal
• Teacher
• Ophthalmologists
• Other Agencies

Annette Godfrey-Magee
Education Officer
Educational Vision Assessment Clinic
Statewide Vision Resource Centre
P.O. Box 201 Nunawading 3131
Phone: 03 9841 0807
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