Positive Looking Course
Understand visual skills development
The tailored courses use our flagship products. Positive Looking 1 which focuses on motor visual skills. And Positive Looking 2 which focuses on visual perception skills. Each is presented as a full day course to fully explain the skills and resources. You can also have both products can delivered together during a full day session.
The format of both courses is the same.
The sessions
Positive Looking 1, is an easy to use guide. Offering a comprehensive framework. Designed to help support and develop a child’s visual skills. Recently expanded and updated to include a section on Independent Living Skills. Positive Looking 1 concerns the motor visual skills associated with optical functioning. These include awareness, attention, fixation, tracking and scanning.
Our second ssection Positive Looking 2 is easy and simple to use. Filled with practical suggestions and clear observation points. Adaptable templates allow for planning activity sessions, recording engagement and tracking progress. Promote the use of common, everyday resources. Create simple-to-make games for development of visual perception strategies and skills.
Benefits
These practical, resource rich courses are ideal for any education setting. They explain the visual skills, and the goal for development in each case.
The courses include demonstrations of how to develop each skill. Explores ideas and activities to support the practitioner. Helping to plan targeted interventions. Explaining observation points to help assess and identify the child’s responses.
Both Positive Looking 1 and Positive Looking 2 are available to buy to go with this course.
Yvonne Smith is a teacher of VI. Based at the Bradford Service for VI. She shares the difference Positive Looking has made.
This is a bespoke course for schools and services. It can be delivered online or face to face, both versions are practical in their delivery. Alternatively you can attend the online Positive Looking Course as an individual please go to the shop to book your place Positive Looking Course
Testimonials:
“Training gave me a greater insight in how to deliver activities and with appropriate and motivating resources.”
“Really useful as it was rooted in the reality of working with children, also well delivered.”
“Fantastic ranges of resources, lovely calm, relaxed and friendly environment for training.”
Teachers of VI, London
