Preparing for school
Your child’s early years
Early learning and development are foundations for your child to grow into a confident, independent and healthy adult. Your child can learn and master important life skills including:
Functional assessments for children
Why does my child need a functional vision assessment?
All children who come to Vision Australia will already have had contact with an eye doctor. The doctor will have provided a diagnosis and prognosis for the eye condition.
Often parents find this doctor's visit quite stressful. They may have many unanswered questions and want practical information as to the implications any visual loss might have for education and life skills.
Funding options for you and your child
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
- Better Start for Children with Disability program
- Queensland Department of Education and Training (DET) Queensland only
National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) provides individualised support for eligible people with permanent and significant disability, their families and carers.
Children
Each child is unique, and as a parent you know they interact and learn in their own wonderful way.
Finding out your child has vision loss can turn your world upside down. You may have all sorts of questions. What does the future hold for them? How will they manage at school? How will this affect our family?
Much of what we learn in life is through watching. So children with vision loss need to gather information about their world in different ways, and parents are their first and favourite teacher.