How Do You Teach A Child With Visual Impairments?
Children with visual impairments can learn academic skills as well as other children, provided that their curriculum and materials have the right adaptions. They simply need to learn some things differently. Some tasks will be harder for them, but other tasks will be easier. Encourage them to speak up. Teach them to tell you when they are struggling with a concept or when they need text to be in braille or enlarged. Make discussing the impairment a matter of fact occurrence. Keep them close by. Students with visual impairments will benefit from being as close as possible to the board, screen, chart or activity. Make enlarged copies of all visuals. If the children have any vision at all, they will benefit from having enlarged versions of the papers and books that the other students have. Plan ahead and make enlarged copies of all classroom materials. Repeat yourself. Since students with visual impairments cannot rely on visual clues, they may need to hear things more often than other st
