The Norfolk & Norwich Association for The Blind
Children and Families
Welcome to our website page especially for Children and Families.
NNAB is pleased to offer it's services to visually impaired people of all ages, their families, friends and carers. YoungEyes is the name of our group of young vision-impaired friends aged from 0 to 16 years old and their families. To date we have 92 young people on our mailing list who receive news about our events that are especially organised for them and their families. The support that families can give each other is also vital and if NNAB can facilitate this happening we are delighted. Our children's events are well supported by our families and also other related organisations.
We work closely with both The Children's Services Education Sensory Support Team and also with The Social Services Sensory Support Unit.
Please contact us if you any queries about services for vision-impaired children, we shall be happy to help.
Recent YoungEyes Events
‘The Grease Experience’ at The Theatre Royal.
One Saturday in December The Bradbury Centre hosted the ‘Cool Club’, a Club for vision-impaired youngsters aged 10-14 years. Jointly staffed by NNAB staff and Teachers from the Education Sensory Support Service, a group of ten young ladies met at the Bradbury to enjoy each other’s company playing games, dancing to the X Box Kinect, designing Christmas Tree decorations and sharing a lunch. In the afternoon we all walked down to the Theatre to enjoy a spectacular performance of Grease. Prior to the show we were treated to a Touch Tour of the stage, where we saw the Grease Lightening car. The girls had the opportunity to try on a Pink Ladies fleece and a T Birds jacket!
It was full day but so enjoyable, we hope to repeat the experience again next July with a visit to see Oliver.
. Dancing to the X Box.
Christmas Party
Our 2011 YoungEyes Christmas Party was a great success. We welcomed 110 people to the event and a fun time was had by all our children and their families. Our special guests were The Lord Mayor of Norwich, Councillor Jenny Lay and her Consort and of course Father Christmas and his Elf who arrived this year on Harley Davidson motor bikes, courtesy of The Eaton Hoggs Bikers Club. They made quite an entrance with their machines decorated for the occasion.
The Lord Mayor of Norwich has a chat with Santa.
The children enjoyed dancing, party games, singing. making music and decorating their own Christmas tree biscuits.
The party tea was generously provided for us by Norwich Sunblinds.
The Rainbow Room
The Rainbow Room in The Bradbury Centre is our Children's Room and contains a piece of equipment called The Sensory Voyager, which is proving to be a wonderful resource for the families of our 'YoungEyes' group. The combination of lights, projected images and music enables the young people to practise their visual skills in a fun and stimulating way. The bubble tube which can be reflected in 3 mirrors to produce multiple images, changes colour and can be operated by children themselves using a colourful switch pad with which they can experiment and produce different colour combinations. This all encouarges interaction and the use of vision in children whose visual skills may be delayed.
Please contact us if you would like to use this room.
Nathanial and his brothers have fun together. George exploring the Bubble Tube.
If you would like more information about YoungEyes at NNAB, please phone Dorothy 01603 629558
or email her dorothybowen@nnab.org,uk