Staff of the SVRC

Several of the staff of the Statewide Vision Resource Centre describe their jobs as “the best job in the world (but don't tell anyone else)!”. It is hard to say what causes us to be so enamoured with our work - but it could be to do with the people with whom we have the pleasure to work. Firstly there are our teaching and production staff at the SVRC - thirteen of the most diverse and interesting people you'd ever meet! If you have a problem, just bring it up at morning tea and someone will have the answer. Next are the students and their families. We support them for thirteen years or more - from prep all the way through to their completion of VCE - so strong bonds are often formed. And of course there are the schools - principals, teachers, aides, office staff, the computer technician, the maintenance person - all of them can play an important part in the educational life of the student.

Visitors come to the SVRC, particularly when they have spent time in busy primary and hectic secondary schools, and marvel at how quiet the place is - “like a library” they say. But the apparent calm can mask any number of deadlines, special projects, submission- and report-writing, professional development organisation etc etc etc. It is a bit like a duck on the pond - below the waterline it may be paddling like mad!

So meanwhile each year we produce tens of thousands of pages of braille and large print, host approximately 30 professional development programs, assess approximately 120 students, write countless reports and submissions, maintain two websites, write twenty editions of the newsletter, offer consultation and support to forty Visiting Teachers and 400+ schools ... and generally keep ourselves relatively busy!

For more information about our major activities see the following links:

• Professional Development - see the annual program of Professional Development
• Alternative Format Production and Lending Library - materials produced in braille and tactual format, audio tape, large print and e-text
• Camps and Activities Program - see some of the activities that have been hosted by the Statewide Vision Resource Centre in recent years
• The Bulletin - fortnightly newsletter (email version available on request)
• Information and Consultation - see also the Statewide Vision Resource Centre website
• Website of Access Technology Options - products and support available for students with vision impairments - includes computer access (voice, enlargement, braille, scanning), calculators, curriculum support materials (dictionaries, e-texts, atlases, literacy tools etc), video magnifiers (CCTVs) and more!

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