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• Seeing New Possibilities: A Guide to Teaching Students with Visual Impairments
  Children with visual impairments are increasingly becoming students in general education classrooms. Teaching students that are visually impaired requires preparation, planning, and support from specialists. Use this guide to begin the educational journey to accommodate these students' needs.
• Looking Through Their Eyes: Teaching Suggestions for Visually Impaired Students
  Making minor adjustments to the classroom, providing aids and monitoring progress are simple ways to teach a visually impaired child so they succeed in a regular classroom. Allowing them to use all of their senses and build on their strengths will help to avoid discouragement and academic struggles.
• Children's Stories for the Visually Impaired
  Children with visual disabilities have very limited access to books. The best books for visually impaired children are of course print – Braille books or books with tactile representations of pictures. This article also includes a list of popular books for young visually impaired children.
• Braille Curriculum Choices for the Vision Impaired Student
  Students who are vision impaired use a reading method known as Braille. By running their fingers along a series of raised dots, blind students are able to decipher letters, numbers, and words. There are several excellent curriculum options available to teachers whose students are learning Braille.
• Teaching Children With Developmental Disabilities and Visual Impairment
  Children with developmental disabilities are at higher risk for visual impairments that impact learning. Early evaluation and therapeutic interventions can help these children reach their full potential.
• How Do Fine-Motor Activities Develop Visual Perception in Special Needs Students?
  As young children manipulate toys they develop visual perceptual skills to discriminate shapes, sizes and how objects relate to one another in space. These early visual perceptual skills will later help them discriminate letters- the first steps toward reading and writing.
• Evaluating Visual Perceptual Skills in Young Children
  Visual perception is the brain’s interpretation of what one sees. We can observe its development as young children respond to the people and things that they see and grasp. But how do parents and teachers know when these skills are developing normally for special needs students?
• Types of Assistive Technology Available Visually Impaired Students
  The types and amount of assistive technology for students with visual impairments has grown over the years. Let’s review a few of the most commonly used products that enable students to access written materials.
• Identifying Students With Visual Perceptual Problems
  The child who draws right at the bottom of the page... The one who always skips lines when reading... The child who can't catch a ball... The one who does anything to avoid a pen and paper in class. What is the story behind these kids? Lazy? Bored? Clumsy? Or something more?