Education

Transition: Changing times From the Summer 2008 issue. When you have multi-sensory impairments, moving from school into the adult world isn’t always easy. Sarah Butler explores this transition stage and how families and young people experience a time of change, uncertainty and possibilities.
A new curriculum for Victoria School's MSI Unit From the Summer 2008 issue. Heather Murdoch, who teaches in the MSI Unit, Victoria School, Birmingham, describes how a new curriculum has been developed for children with MSI (multi-sensory impaired).
Education: Learning from Samir From the Summer 2008 issue. It seemed a tall order for a boy with so many difficulties to attend a mainstream school. But Samir – and all his teachers and friends at the school – got so much out of the experience. Patricia Gibbons, Advisory teacher for deafblind and multi-sensory impaired children, tells the story.
Jack mixes it at school How to combine mainstream school with specialist help? Eight year old Jack shows how it can be done, says Beverley Mars
Rhythm of learning – Summer 2010 In the second of a series of articles about putting the MSI curriculum into action, Heather Murdoch and Rosie McMinn from the Victoria School MSI Unit describe the part played by music and rhythm.
Dramatic dialogue - Spring 2011 Heather Murdoch describes how drama in their MSI curriculum has given the children at the Victoria MSI Unit in Birmingham the chance to learn, experiment and have fun.

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