Specialist Services
Specialist Services consists of the following sections:
- Nurses
- Mobility & Orientation
- Therapies
Nurses
A team of nurses attend to the day-to-day medical needs of the pupils and students to ensure that their general health and well-being is maintained and always top priority.
Mobility & Orientation
The aim of our mobility programme is to provide our pupils and students with the skills, concepts and experiences necessary to enable them to travel independently with safety, confidence and efficiency.
Mobility training involves the teaching of mobility and orientation skills. Good mobility skills enable the pupils and students to move around safely; but, purposeful movement cannot be attained without good orientation skills which are necessary for them to establish their position in the environment using their remaining senses.
Orientation and mobility allows pupils and students the opportunity to take responsibility for themselves, make choices, engage in a varied range of recreational and leisure pursuits and enter employment on a par with their sighted peers.
Therapies
Physical, emotional, behavioural and family problems, in addition to their visual impairment, can create significant barriers to learning and the Therapy Team assists children and students to overcome these.
The Therapy Team work across the Dorton campus and a period of assessment decides what is the appropriate medium for therapy. These include:
- Physiotherapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Speech & Language Therapy
- Music Therapy
For further information please email specialist.services@rlsb.org.uk or phone 01732 592621.
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