Nursery World - Inclusion: Visual impairment

How the practitioners at one nursery group have become confident in supporting the needs of visually impaired children. By Annette Rawstrone

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The Elmscot Group has five nurseries in Cheshire and 16 years’ experience under its belt in looking after children with SEND, including autism, speech and language difficulties and Down syndrome. However, dealing with visual impairment was an area in which its practitioners had little experience until two registered blind children started at their settings four years ago.

‘It was all very new to us when we introduced the children to the setting, and we were learning on the job,’ says Lucy Yarnell, nursery manager of the Elmscot setting in Timperley. She was responsible for settling one of the children, Ruby (not her real name), who has since started school.

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