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Curriculum Framework for Children and Young People with Vision Impairment (CFVI)

Defining specialist skills development and best practice support to promote equity, inclusion and personal agency.

Overview of the CFVI

The Curriculum Framework for Children and Young People with Vision Impairment (CFVI) has been developed to support children and young people with vision impairment access an appropriate and equitable education. 

The framework presents outcomes within 11 teaching areas:

  • Facilitating an Inclusive World
  • Sensory Development
  • Communication
  • Literacy
  • Habilitation: Orientation and Mobility
  • Habilitation: Independent Living Skills
  • Accessing information
  • Technology
  • Health: Social, Emotional, Mental and Physical Wellbeing
  • Social, Sports and Leisure
  • Preparing for Adulthood.

It provides a shared vocabulary to be used by children and young people, their families and professionals in the UK who work with them. A shared vocabulary supports both better communication and purpose.

Parents and carers

The CFVI can be used to enable parents and carers to understand the pathways of support for their child and the services who may be  involved in providing that support within a given nationwide context. 

This increased understanding of the areas of focus for a child’s learning, development and wider participation and the common language and shared vocabulary that the CFVI provides, should enable parents to feel more comfortable and confident when meeting professionals to discuss their child’s progress and participation in education and the wider world. 

Join RNIB for the Curriculum Framework for Children and Young People with Vision Impairment (CFVI) Live Q & A Session

This is an opportunity to address the CFVI project team directly with any questions you may have about the framework itself, it’s development or its use in practice.

Book your free place 

The Curriculum Framework for Children and Young People with Vision Impairment (CFVI) live Q and A is a free, online event taking place on Wednesday 4 May from 12 to 1.30pm. 

You can book your free place by registering on Zoom

Please submit any questions you would like to be considered by emailing [email protected]. The closing date for question submissions is Monday 2 May 2022.