Area 2: Maximising the use and development of the senses: sensory efficiency
This page focuses on maximising the use and development of the senses and sensory efficiency.
Overviews
- Perkins School for the Blind: The importance of sensory efficiency (External). A brief description of sensory efficiency skills and why they are important. For parents, other professionals, and CYPVI.
- Perkins School for the Blind: Sensory Efficiency (External). This US website has a range of resources on teaching students with VI including this brief description of sensory efficiency skills and their relevance to transition. The overview would be of interest also to parents. There is information about a textbook that may provide useful content for QTVIs and Habilitation Specialists.
- Family Connect - APH: Sensory efficiency and the expanded core curriculum (External). This US website for parents offers a brief description of sensory efficiency skills with links to further content on visual efficiency skills, listening skills, and sensory efficiency skills for deafblind children.
Tactile/haptic perception and development
- Please see Area 4: Literacy resources relating to braille/pre-braille
- Please see Area 7: Accessing Information resources relating to tactile graphics
Fine and gross motor skills
- Please see Area 4: Literacy resources relating to braille/pre-braille
Vestibular, proprioreceptive and kinaesthetic development
- Please refer to downloadable resources below relating to early mobility
Auditory Skills
- Teaching Students with Visual Impairments: Auditory Readiness (External). This US website has a range of resources on teaching students with VI including guidance on teaching listening skills with a focus on auditory readiness.
- Teaching Students with Visual Impairments: Listening Skills Instruction (External). This US website has a range of resources on teaching students with VI including this guidance on helping to develop listening and auditory skills.
- VIEW Member Newsletter Autumn 2019: article on sonification and its applications for CYPVI (External). Sonification is the use of sounds and pitches to convey information. It can be an important tool for use by QTVIs and Habilitation Specialists in helping CYPVI develop auditory skills.
Downloadable Resources
See Area 2: Sensory Development homepage to discover downloadable resources shared by the sector