5.+Visual+Impairments

=__VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS:__=

="An impairment in vision that, even with correction, adversely affects educational performance. The term includes both partial sight and blindness."=

Below is a link to a very extensive link where you can find various teaching strategies to help teach students with Visual Impairments who may be in your classroom:
http://www.uni.edu/walsh/blindresources.html

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 * **Visual acuity:** Ability to see details (Salend, 99)
 * **Visual field**: The area one sees when viewing something straight ahead. (Salend, 99)
 * **Ocular motility:** Their ability to track stationary and moving visual stimuli (Salend, 99)

=**What to know?**= Students who have a visual impairment can be a challenging task for as teacher. How to overcome that obstacle is very important. http://www.cec.sped.org/Content/NavigationMenu/AboutCEC/International/StepbyStep/ResourceCenter/ClassroomEnvironment/VOL.33NO.6JULYAUGUST2001_TEC_cox.pdf = = = = =Articles:= http://www.nichcy.org/disabilities/specific/pages/visualimpairment.aspx http://www.ncpublicschools.org/ec/instructional/visual/ http://www.afb.org/ http://www.helium.com/items/778054-teaching-children-with-visual-impairments http://www.as.wvu.edu/~scidis/vision.html http://www.devdis.com/sld.html = = = = = = = = =Videos:= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh7tcF9SJfM&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o_EhEaL31A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OusyFCMRWFw