Vision Support Team

There are many vision conditions that can affect the child/young person’s eyes, optic nerve (carries visual information) or brain (processing visual information).

The Vision Support Team Qualified Teachers of Vision Impairment have developed a selection of information leaflets around the most common vision conditions that thousands and in some cases even millions of people in the UK experience every day.

For those children and young people with a vision impairment who are supported by a Qualified Teacher of Vision Impairment from the Vision Support Team, advice and guidance on the child/young person’s vision condition will be given in a bespoke Vision Management Plan.

The leaflets below explain the condition, how it affects the child’s vision, and what can be done to help.

• Amblyopia 
• Anisometropia
• Astigmatism
• Blepharitis Conjunctivitis 
• Blepharitis Keratoconjunctivitis
• Conjunctivitis
• Double Vision or Diplopia
• Down Syndrome – Eye Conditions
• Encouraging a child to wear glasses
• Eye Patching – Patches and Atropine Drops
• Hypermetropia or long-Sighted
• Monocular Vision- Right Sided Loss of Vision
• Monocular Vision- Left Sided Loss of Vision
• Myopia or Short Sight
• Ptosis
• Retinoblastoma
• Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP)
• Squint, Strabismus, Esotropia or Exotropia
• Visual Stress know as Irlen Syndrome or Meares Irlen Syndrome

With these conditions, if the advice and recommendations are followed, all being well, the child/young person is unlikely to have a vision impairment (where the vision long-term is still reduced with glasses or contact lenses). These children/young people will not require a Qualified Teacher of Vision Impairment to support them unless their corrected vision is found to be reduced (when wearing any prescribed glasses/contact lenses)