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Visual impairments including blindness (VI)

hudsonfortuny14 — 2024-03-12 14:58:26 UTC

What is impairment of vision?

hudsonfortuny14 — 2024-03-12 15:02:40 UTC

An impairment to vision is when a child/adult's vision is affected resulting in a more challenging way to learn and navigate. This can include blindness, cataracts, glaucoma, and many more.

hudsonfortuny14 — 2024-03-12 15:03:37 UTC

Characteristics of impaired vision including blindness

hudsonfortuny14 — 2024-03-12 15:08:53 UTC

Challenged in seeing objects afar and in our periphery
When focusing on an object, your vision can be blurred
Challenged in refocusing vision in lighter or darker environments
Double-vision

How can we identify visual impairment in kids? And what procedures can be conducted?

hudsonfortuny14 — 2024-03-12 15:20:17 UTC

Medical professionals say parents and teachers see signs of visual impairment very early on, even as early as babies. Some signs to look out for are not focusing on objects, eyes going cross-eyed, and lack of direction. Eye doctors perform a series of tests on a child's vision to determine if they have a visual impairment or potential blindness. Some examples of tests they perform include visual acuity tests, visual field tests, and depth perception tests.

Where do visually impaired children get their education?

hudsonfortuny14 — 2024-03-12 15:24:10 UTC

There are lots of visually impaired and blind friendly schools that work with brail and more techniques to teach students who are visually impaired, but most students with vision difficulties go to public school with the rest of the children accompanied by a helper that shadows them in the classroom and helps with keeping them on the same path in reading, writing, and more.

What accommodations can visually impaired students use in the classroom setting?

hudsonfortuny14 — 2024-03-12 15:28:40 UTC

Most visually impaired students can use resources like audio-taped lessons, brail, raised line drawings, and more, to help them keep up with learning in school.

Behavioral and social accommodations

hudsonfortuny14 — 2024-03-12 15:33:09 UTC

Children who are affected by visual impairment will experience a difficulty in connecting with other students and developing social skills. Some ways this topic is targeting is with someone who works alongside the student and explains what is happening in their social environment; such as describing facial features and gestures and allowing the student to participate in this conversation and ask questions.

National level website for teachers and parents

hudsonfortuny14 — 2024-03-12 15:38:34 UTC

Success Beyond Sight (SBS) is a great national-level website for teachers trying to further their understanding of children with visual impairment. This non-profit has created a free national registry for teachers and students to access the number of ways to teach and learn with visual impairments.

For parents, the National Organization of parents of blind children is a great website to access amazing strategies for parenting a visually impaired child.

State level websites for teachers and parents

hudsonfortuny14 — 2024-03-12 15:43:10 UTC

In North Carolina specifically, the North Carolina AER chapter, Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired, is a great source of help and guidance for teachers and students in a classroom setting. This is a great source to look at. Their mission statement: "The mission of AER is to support professionals who provide education and rehabilitation services to people with visual impairments."

For parents, The exceptional children assistance center is a great resource to look at. This association gives training to parents with visually impaired children. The website is a great source to check out.

Local level for accommodating teachers and students

hudsonfortuny14 — 2024-03-12 15:45:36 UTC

This may not a specific website targeting for helping teachers navigate teaching visually impaired children, but in each high school in North Carolina, specifically my old high school, Cary High, we had special education teachers who specifically helped teach children with visual impairment issues.

References and citations

hudsonfortuny14 — 2024-03-12 15:54:35 UTC