Visual Impairments

Definition of Exceptionality

Visual Impairments

The IDEA defines visual impairments as; a an impairment in vision that, even with correction, adversely affects a child's educational performance. This includes both partial sight and blindness.Students who is totally blind receives no useful information through the sense of vision and must use tactile and auditory senses for all learning.Student who is functionally blind has so little vision that she learns primarily through the auditory and tactile senses. she may be able to use her limited vision to supplement the information received from the other senses and to assist with certain tasks. A child with low vision uses vision as a primary means of learning but may supplement visual information with tactile and auditory input


Implications of Teaching

As a regular elementary teacher I will also student who has visual impairments to use voice recorders. This is incase they don’t understand it fully the first time because they aren’t able to see they visual aid, they will be able to replay and obtain a better understanding. I will use contrast papers to help the students who can’t contract when reading. I think it is extremely import to give hand out to these students and make sure that the print on these hand outs is large. I will allow the use of the students who have visual impairments and aren’t completely blind to use a magnifying glass.

Specific Technologies

Braille readers: it can change Braille into spoken language therefore a student can do their work and the teacher is still able to read what they’ve done.
Audio Books- books that are read out by a audio player
Overhead- enlarges transparences so that they are easier to read.

Annotated Reference

1. Text Book
Education the Exceptional Child
Ninth edition
2. To help children’s parents get a better understand of how they are seeing things. http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?sectionid=15
3. American Association of Deaf-Blind
www.lowvision.org/deaf_blind_information.htm
4. Colorado Department of Education
www.cde.state.co.us
5. Foundation Fighting the Blind
http://www.blindness.org/A