Season's Greetings from all at NatSIP

At the end of another busy year the NatSIP steering group wish you a merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Thank you to for your support of NatSIP during 2025 and for all you do for children and young people with deafness, multi sensory and vision impairment.  
We look forward to hearing from you and seeing you at events in 2026.

Lindsey Jane Rousseau
NatSIP Facilitator

 

Last June NatSIP partners joined See Ability eye care champions in signing a letter to NHS England and government on improving eye care for people with learning disabilities.

Yesterday there was good news in that there has been a new commitment to rollout sight testing in all special schools from next year 2024/25! Where there is the existing NHS service in special schools this will continue too.

It’s such a great bit of news and SeeAbility wanted to thank everyone for all their incredible support!

If you would like to read more the government statement is in full here

NDCS has today publicly launched Every Moment Counts, their new 2023-2028 strategy.

It’s based on these charitable objectives:

  • To deliver outstanding support in the early years;
  • To provide life-changing information and advice;
  • To build communities that unite families;
  • (in respect of our international work) to be the leading global authority on childhood deafness

The strategy is available at https://www.ndcs.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do/every-moment-counts-our-2023-to-2028-strategy/ and there is a media landing page at https://www.ndcs.org.uk/every-moment-counts

Sensory Impairment and Sensory Integration - same or different?
Following the popular presentation by Dr Gail Deuce at the NatSIP Working Day in February 2018, NatSIP has produced this short video which introduces sensory processing. In a 6 minute overview Gail talks about some of the differences between sensory integration (more often called Sensory Processing Disorder) and sensory impairment and looks at the impact of sensory processing difficulties in young people with sensory impairments.