This document discusses the needs of a 15-month-old child named Laila who has severe vision impairment and her newcomer family. It provides information about Laila's condition, how vision impairment can affect development, and what supports may help meet Laila's and her family's needs. Specifically, it suggests ECE teachers and professionals can help with Laila's development, and community services in their native language, schools, clinics, and foreign community groups can provide additional support. The document also outlines accommodations that could be made in childcare to help Laila and refers the reader to agencies and resources available in the Greater Toronto Area.

1. Meeting the Needs of
Children and Families
Centennial College
Early Childhood Education Program
Inclusion Children with special needs
ECEP 233-001
Chris Cadieux
Dan-Bi Lee 300700631
Due date: March 15th Saturday 2014

2. Introduction to the child and family
About the child
-15 months old child, Laila
-She is a child with severe vision impairment
About the family
-has concerns about her safety, and how to teach L to make
friendships.
-Newcomer to this city
-has an expectation of their second child
-has question about community services.

3. About the child’s special need:
Severe Vision Impairment
What’s S.V.I.?
- a condition that inhibits the child’s ability to see
What are the effects of S.V.I. on childhood development?
-Early onset visual loss can affect a child’s motor, social, emotional,
and psychological development
-Nearly 75% of early learning comes from vision

4. Continue…
What is the reason of Severe Vision Impairment?
-Prematurity
-Family history or genetic disease
-neurological Problems
How S.V.I. impacts on early children?
-”This affects the individual, their family, and the community,
infants’ development, education, and future social, marital, and
economic prospects. “(Dale N, 2007)

5. “Students with visual impairments live as other
people do.
They go to school, have after-school jobs, date,
play sports, and socialize.” (Dawn)

6. What supports do Laila and her
family need?
•ECE teachers and Professional services for encouraging
Laila’s childhood development
•Community supports
-i,e.) Where to get services that provide in own language,
which school/day care centre provides services in GTA for
supporting children with Severe Vision Impairment including
safety.
•Professional supports
-i,e.) clinic including Laila can use and the expecting second
child can use that has a doctor who can speak Laila’s family’s
back-home language in GTA
•Foreign community group (i.e. Korean, Chinese, French, etc)

7. Plan ways I would meet some of the
needs with the child care setting
Accommodations for Laila
•Lighting
•Colour and contrast
•Activities engaging other senses
•Providing special workspace/more space
•Making adjustments to the environment – i.e.
textured surfaces to provide directions
•Materials with larger or bold text
These points : can be addressing to the article
‘Programming for children with Visual Impairments’.

8. Overview of referred agencies&
resources
•Foreign Community Services in GTA
1. InterNations – Associated different foreign online
communities in Toronto
2. Toronto Korean Canadian Cultural Association
3. Весь Русский Торонто в одном месте - Russian
Toronto
•Professional Services in GTA
1. Finch Avenue Optometry
2. A brochure- Services for children who are blind or
have low vision (Ontario)
3. Health Services (i.e. Community Volunteer Clinic for
the Medically Uninsured
1125 Markham Road
Hours of operation: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5
pm to 8 pm)

9. Self-Reflection
This part has included in the note page.

10. Bibliography
 It has included in the note page

11. Thank you for enjoying my
presentation
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