Curriculum Framework for Children and Young People with a Vision Impairment (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 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

At the heart of the framework is a set of 3 fundamental aims:

  • To help clarify and define the elements of specialist skill development, interventions and best practice support that are essential for children and young people with vision impairment.
  • To assist qualified specialist practitioners in raising awareness amongst other professionals and parents of the need for children and young people with vision impairment to be taught skills that enable them to access the curriculum and the wider world with as much independence as possible.
  • To aid discussion and understanding amongst all involved in a child/young person’s education of how and when these skills should be taught by suitably qualified specialists and reinforced by non-specialist staff.

How are Derbyshire Vision Impairment Team (Children’s Services) implementing the CFVI?

The team of Qualified Teachers for Vision Impairment (QTVI’s) and the Habilitation/Mobility Officers will offer advice and support which encapsulates the 11 areas of the CFVI. For the teachers an ’Access to Vision’ report is produced at least annually which stipulates how these 11 areas can be addressed for the young person. Visit records, targets and outcomes will focus on areas of the CFVI. The team aim to interweave the CFVI into their regular contacts with schools and families and encapsulate the needs of the child or young person with a vision impairment to develop and empower the individual to access their environment and become as independent as possible.

More information?

For further information and advice guides for parents and professionals, please visit:
RNIB - Curriculum Framework for Children and Young People with Vision Impairment