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Media segments

  • Count Us In video (2007)
    Students at the RIDBC Thomas Pattison School signed up to be a part of Count Us In, an initiative of the Music Council of Australia for the promotion of music in schools nationally.
  • TTN video
    To celebrate 2007 NSW Education week, The RIDBC Teleschool and RIDBC Thomas Pattison School were profiled on Channel 10's TV news program, TTN.
  • Talk to the animals video
    Scruffy is a star recruit for RIDBC, and now makes regular preschool visits to provide his own canine ‘language’ lessons. With such a unique role at RIDBC, Scruffy was recently featured in an episode of Talk to the Animals.

RIDBC services

  • RIDBC Teleschool video
    RIDBC Teleschool provides high quality educational services to children with hearing and/or vision impairment living in regional or rural Australia.

Children on RIDBC services

  • Jesse from RIDBC Teleschool video
    Three-year-old Jesse is profoundly deaf and lives in Nhulunbuy in the Northern Territory. Through regular videoconferences, RIDBC Teacher/Consultant, Lynne Richards, works to develop Jesse’s speech and language.
  • Moana from RIDBC VisionEd video
    Six-year-old Moana is blind. Using only her sense of touch, Moana completes a complex tactile puzzle. A significant challenge to complete without sight, these puzzles help to develop many of Moana’s skills.
  • Chelsea video
    Five-year-old Chelsea has been blind since birth. She relies heavily on her sense of touch and her grasp of language to identify the objects around her.