Most learning occurs visually. How does a student with a visual impairment learn?
Because vision is the primary sense upon which most traditional educational strategies are based, strategies need to be accommodated to address the student’s visual, auditory, and tactual learning access needs. Understanding the functional and educational effects of the visual impairment is essential to adjusting educational strategies, as well as to the instruction and assessment processes.
When one or more parts of the eye that are needed to process images becomes diseased or damaged, severe or total loss of vision can occur. In these cases, vision can’t be fully restored with medical treatment, surgery, or corrective lenses like glasses or contacts. The result of such a loss can affect students’ development. The educational effect depends on the severity, age of onset and type of loss.
Less than one percent of all students are visually impaired. They are a heterogeneous group with a wide range of educational, developmental, and physical abilities and needs which require specialized supports and services. They are common to one another only in the fact that they all have a visual impairment. This impairment often affects the student beyond academic needs. These unique needs can be addressed through The Expanded Core Curriculum (ECC) which focuses on the student’s independence, transition, social, and self-determination needs. All these areas must be addressed to ensure that meaningful learning occurs. Teachers of students with visual impairments and orientation and mobility instructors are professionals that can provide the specialized supports and services in the ECC.
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Featured Materials
- LEARNING THE SEEING EYE GPS APP
March 15, 2018 - Converting EBAE (English Braille American Edition) to UEB (Unified English Braille) with Duxbury
January 18, 2017 - Bookshare: Overview and Downloading
January 11, 2016 - Bookshare: Accessible Education Materials (AEM) and Information Tools
February 11, 2016 - Bookshare: Lifelong Learning
March 14, 2016 - Low Vision: Practical Applications of Accessibility Features
December 6, 2017 - Unified English Braille Implementation Plan
November 16, 2015 - Providing Accommodations for Students with Visual Impairments who Take the PASA
January 22, 2013 - Dually Noted: News From the Pennsylvania Deaf-Blind Project - Fall/Winter 2014
November 24, 2014 - Cortical Visual Impairment: Community of Practice
September 14, 2012 - HELIX - Pennsylvania's Low Incidence Conference - Brochure
August 15, 2017 - AIM4Access2Reading042015.pdf(758 kb)
April 22, 2015 - BrainSTEPS: Return to Learn Fall 2014 Webinar Series: Students (K-12) with Concussion
October 29, 2014 - Vision Issues that Impact Academics and School Day Function
October 30, 2014 - Answering Special Considerations for Students Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
October 21, 2015 - Pennsylvania's Approach to the National Agenda for the Education of Children and Youths with Visual Impairments, Deafblindness, and Visual and Multiple Disabilities (PANA)
October 1, 2011 - Pennsylvania's Approach to the National Agenda for the Education of Children and Youths with Visual Impairments, Deafblindness, and Visual and Multiple Disabilities (PANA) - brochure
December 1, 2013
CVI Spring Training Session II
04:01:15 minutesCVI Spring Training: Past the Basics
04:05:10 minutesBookshare: Overview and Downloading - Day 1
01:17:55 minutesBookshare: Overview and Downloading - Day 2
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01:05:06 minutesBookshare: Lifelong Learning - Day 3
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Consultants
- Doug Williams
Assistive Technology, Deaf-Blind, Blind/Visual Impairment (VI), IDEA and Chapter 14, Project MAX - Jennifer Edgar
Deaf-Blind, Blind/Visual Impairment (VI), PDE Annual Conference - Lynn Fox
Deaf-Blind, Blind/Visual Impairment (VI), Students with Complex Support Needs, Project MAX