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Teaching Students With Visual Impairments

The document provides strategies for teaching students with visual impairments in general education classrooms. It recommends preferential seating, high contrast print materials, additional time for assignments, and independence. Specific accommodations are suggested for students who are blind, such as verbal explanations, spatial directions from the student's perspective, and braille or tactile formats for handouts. Resources for further information on teaching students with visual impairments are also listed.

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Teaching Students With Visual Impairments

The document provides strategies for teaching students with visual impairments in general education classrooms. It recommends preferential seating, high contrast print materials, additional time for assignments, and independence. Specific accommodations are suggested for students who are blind, such as verbal explanations, spatial directions from the student's perspective, and braille or tactile formats for handouts. Resources for further information on teaching students with visual impairments are also listed.

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Teaching Students

● Preferential seating with his/her back to


windows. Reduce glare!
● Black contrast print on white paper
with Visual ● do not laminate
● more time to complete assignments.
Impairments ● Word games, puzzles and graphs may be
inappropriate for low vision students.
Children General Ed Classroom ● Give the student the grade he/she earns.
Mainstreaming and Parent Tips ● The rules of discipline should be the same for
a low vision student, as for any other

Strategies for Students who are Blind


● It's okay to say "look" and "see."
● Provide verbal explanations. Allow the student
time to handle tactually adapted materials.
● Spatial directions must be given from the
STUDENT'S perspective.
● Preferential seating
● Additional time to order Classroom handouts,
in braille, tactile formats and/or verbal
descriptions. USe electronic textbooks.
● Expect the student with visual impairments to
complete the same assignments as the rest of
the class.
● Independence is of primary importance!
● Avoid leaving doors and drawers ajar or chairs
“According to VisionAware, it is estimated that the sense out from under tables and desks
of sight provides approximately 80% of all the information ● Address all students by name so that the
we receive about the world.” student with visual impairments can learn to
associate names with voices of classmates.
● Always treat the student with visual
Changes in the medium used: impairments equally as other students
● braille
● large print
Resources
● audiotape
● electronic text
● oral testing/scribing
● Teaching Students with Visual Impairments by Elizabeth Wallace

● Teaching Students with Visual Impairments by Carmen Willings

● Making the Learning Environment Accessible to Students with Visual


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Strategies for Students with Low Vision 1Oksana Mozgina, Soumya Basavaraj, Keith Vann

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