{"id":83,"date":"2011-08-27T13:23:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T21:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/?p=83"},"modified":"2012-03-03T19:04:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T03:04:26","slug":"the-v-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/2011\/08\/27\/the-v-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;V&#8221; Professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Vision Consultant<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Vision consultants\u00a0(Fig. 1) are trained to work with children with vision impairments and their families, on a one-on-one basis. Vision consultants make sure that children with vision impairments receive the aid and programs they need. They work with <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/2012\/01\/30\/ophthalmologist-or-eye-doctor\/\" target=\"_blank\">eye-doctors<\/a>, teachers and principals, parents, and with <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/category\/3-2-the-o-professionals\/\" target=\"_blank\">orientation and mobility consultants<\/a>\u00a0to assist the child and family. For children ages 4 and up, the BC Ministry of Education provides information to describe visual impairments and the funding a child may get\u00a0 for special needs support. In British Columbia, vision consultants work with school districts, with provincial health centres like Sunny Hill and BC Children\u2019s Hospital, and with the Ministry of Children and Family Development (the Children\u2019s Low Vision Project).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4069\/4477596128_0a40fdea28.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Vision Consultant\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4069\/4477596128_0a40fdea28.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 1. Vision consultant<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vision Consultant Vision consultants\u00a0(Fig. 1) are trained to work with children with vision impairments and their families, on a one-on-one basis. Vision consultants make sure that children with vision impairments receive the aid and programs they need. They work with eye-doctors, teachers and principals, parents, and with orientation and mobility consultants\u00a0to assist the child and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254480],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-2-the-v-professionals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}