Ideas for Teaching Visually Impaired Students: Seeing the Big Picture
Making minor adjustments to the classroom, providing aids and monitoring progress are simple ways to teach a visually impaired child so they succeed …
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Magnifier Software Options: Products to Help Visually Impaired Students
Magnification software helps in enlargement of text and graphics on the monitor of the computer. The article lists some popular magnification software …
Continue ReadingEight Games for the Visually Impaired Classroom
Visually impaired children also need to be entertained. Like other children, they too need games that fun and interesting. The article discusses …
Continue ReadingGreat Books for Young Visually Impaired Children
Children with visual disabilities have very limited access to books. The best books for visually impaired children are of course print – Braille books …
Continue ReadingChoosing Classroom Page Magnifiers for the Visually Impaired
If you have students with visual impairments in your classroom, they may need to use page magnifiers to read books or peers’ papers. Page …
Continue ReadingEvaluating Visual Perceptual Skills in Special Education Students
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 …
Continue ReadingSpecial Education Teaching Tips: How Do Fine-Motor Activities Develop Visual Perception?
As young children manipulate toys they develop visual perceptual skills to discriminate shapes, sizes and how objects relate to one another in space. …
Continue ReadingStrategies for Helping Children With Developmental Disabilities and Visual Impairments
Children with developmental disabilities are at higher risk for visual impairments that impact learning. Early evaluation and therapeutic …
Continue ReadingWho Invented Braille: The Reading Technique For the Blind Developed by Louis Braille
This article gives you some insight into the man behind the dots - all those tiny rows of dots arranged in intricate patterns that make text …
Continue ReadingIdentifying Visual Perceptual Problems in Your Students: How Teachers Can Help With Visual 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 …
Continue ReadingVisual Perception Problems in Children- Identification and Assessment
The eyes are more than just the window to the soul, they are also an integral part of our ability to function well in the classroom, at home and in …
Continue ReadingTeaching Students With Visual Impairments: A Basic Overview
Students with visual impairments can exhibit a range of vision function that may or may not require assistive technology, large print written text, or …
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