Thomas Pocklington Trust (TPT) has a range of useful resources for careers leaders and practitioners working with blind and partially sighted students in mainstream secondary schools and colleges.
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Resources
Awareness
To increase your general awareness of the incidence of visual impairment in children and young people and get a sense of what the world looks like through the eyes of people who are blind and partially sighted please visit 'Understanding vision impairment'.
Transition, differentiation and inclusion
To help prepare for and enable effective transition between mainstream education settings and guidance on how to make learning accessible please visit 'Transitioning on from Secondary School'.
Specialist Professionals
To find out more about specialist workers such as Qualified Teachers of Children and Young People with Vision Impairment (QTVI) and habilitation specialists who support transition planning and can help make careers provision including work experience safe and accessible please visit 'A guide to the Professionals'.
Employment & Skills
For real life examples of blind and partially sighted people working in a variety of jobs and sectors, performing conventional work-related tasks using access technology and who have gone through TPTs own Internship programme please visit 'Employment and Internships'.