{"id":8042,"date":"2024-01-30T14:41:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T14:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/willowbankschoolkilmarnock\/?p=8042"},"modified":"2024-01-30T14:41:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T14:41:09","slug":"24-visual-impairment-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/willowbankschoolkilmarnock\/2024\/01\/30\/24-visual-impairment-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Impairment Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Visual Impairment (VI) Team is managed by Louise Bain, and is part of the wider <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/eastayrshiresupportteam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Ayrshire Support Team<\/a> (EAST).<\/p>\n<p>The VI Team have three qualified VI teachers \u2013 Jacqueline Hume, Mhairi Iles and Carol Rome.<\/p>\n<p>The V.I. Team:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Carry out Functional Visual Assessments of pupils who have been referred to them<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Provide advice and useful strategies to school staff<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Liaise with eye clinic and school staff<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Monitor pupils&#8217; vision on an annual basis if required.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Referrals can be made using a Request For Assistance form by emailing the EAST manager:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:catherine.rodger1@eastayrshire.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">catherine.rodger1@eastayrshire.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Visual Impairment (VI) Team is managed by Louise Bain, and is part of the wider East Ayrshire Support Team (EAST). The VI Team have three qualified VI teachers \u2013 Jacqueline Hume, Mhairi Iles and Carol Rome. The V.I. Team: \u00b7 Carry out Functional Visual Assessments of pupils who have been referred to them \u00b7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2796,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/willowbankschoolkilmarnock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/willowbankschoolkilmarnock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/willowbankschoolkilmarnock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/willowbankschoolkilmarnock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/willowbankschoolkilmarnock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/willowbankschoolkilmarnock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8043,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/willowbankschoolkilmarnock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042\/revisions\/8043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/willowbankschoolkilmarnock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/willowbankschoolkilmarnock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/willowbankschoolkilmarnock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}