Elementary School for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Along with our preschool, FBC runs a k-4th grade elementary school for the blind and visually impaired students of the Phoenix area. Our mission for the Elementary Education program is to provide specialized instruction that allows children with visual disabilities, including those with additional disabilities, to develop pre-academic and academic skills that will allow students to be successful going forward as they transition to their neighborhood school.

The program is for those students who are not quite ready for public school, or whose local districts do not have the resources to support them. The option to place a child in our Elementary school for the blind is determined by the needs of the child and the appropriate available programs within the child’s district. Some Elementary Ed students come for only a year. Others may spend two or more years getting ready to join their public-school peers.

Gaining Independence

Along with academics, students at our school for the blind and visually impaired are instructed in orientation and mobility so they can navigate in the world around them. They are provided specialized therapies to develop skills in motor control, speech, and sensory processing, among other important competencies to build independence.

Gaining Independence

Along with academics, students at our school for the blind and visually impaired are instructed in orientation and mobility so they can navigate in the world around them. They are provided specialized therapies to develop skills in motor control, speech, and sensory processing, among other important competencies to build independence.

Major Objectives

Provide an atmosphere that will give access to learning in a manner equal to that of sighted peers.
Provide classroom instruction by a certified teacher of children with visual impairment designed to maximize the use of visual and/or compensatory skills across all academic areas.
Provide skill instruction at each individual child’s demonstrated potential in pre-‐academic and academic areas.
Provide instruction from specialists in occupational therapy, physical therapy, communication, augmentative communication, orientation and mobility, and technology experienced in the unique aspects of and impact of visual impairment compounded by other disabilities in the learning process.
Provide an intensive sensory curriculum to integrate remaining senses to better receive, process, and use information.

Major Objectives

Provide an atmosphere that will give access to learning in a manner equal to that of sighted peers.
Provide classroom instruction by a certified teacher of children with visual impairment designed to maximize the use of visual and/or compensatory skills across all academic areas.
Provide skill instruction at each individual child’s demonstrated potential in pre-‐academic and academic areas.
Provide instruction from specialists in occupational therapy, physical therapy, communication, augmentative communication, orientation and mobility, and technology experienced in the unique aspects of and impact of visual impairment compounded by other disabilities in the learning process.
Provide an intensive sensory curriculum to integrate remaining senses to better receive, process, and use information.