Individuals who have vision impairment and/or are Deaf or Hard of Hearing with additional disabilities require access to the Expanded Core Curriculum (ECC). This curriculum is designed to develop specific skills that can enable individuals to become as independent as possible.

There are nine areas in the ECC for Students with Vision Impairment and eight in the ECC For Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. These areas include:

Not all students will need instruction in all areas. At Kilparrin instruction in these areas can look different for all students and is based on their individual needs. This may include:

Compensatory or Functional Academic Skills / Academic Success

• Alternative Pencils
• Audiobooks / adapted talking books
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
• Auslan / key word sign
• Braille
• Concept development
• Concrete object symbols and representations
• Organisational skills
• Visual schedules

Communication

• Auslan / key word sign
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

Independent Living Skills

• Self-help skills
• Personal care
• Cooking 

Social Interaction / Social-Emotional Skills

• Interpreting and responding to others
• Skills and strategies for play
• Self-regulation

Sensory Efficiency Skills

• Using different senses to explore the environment linking to O&M skills
• Developing student skills in use of residual vision
• Developing student use of auditory skills
• Development of tactile discrimination

Orientation and Mobility

• Developing independent movement skills
• Facilitate and maintain safe and purposeful movement
• Opportunities to interact with a variety of environments in the community and at school
• Develop cane skills when appropriate

Use of Assistive Technology

• iPads, laptops, interactive boards
• Magnification devices
• Switching skills
• Use of accessibility features embedded in mainstream technology, for example voiceover and zoom
• Alternative keyboards including large print and use of high contrast
• Eye gaze
• Sound field systems
• Specific software modified for switch access

Self Determination / Advocacy

• Development of students’ ability to communicate enables individuals to begin to advocate for their needs

Audiology

• Understanding hearing loss
• Amplification management
• Environmental management

Recreation & Leisure Skills

• Swimming
• Adapted physical education activities and equipment
• Play skills
• Exposure to a variety of leisure activities
• Switch adapted games 

Career Education

• Many students from Kilparrin move into a Day Options environments
• Supported employment or a combination of both Day Options and supported employment.