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Special Needs Seminar with focus on Visual Impairment & Assistive Technologies

Special Needs Seminar with focus on Visual Impairment & Assistive Technologies that can be used in the classroom…. It is necessary to keep a compass in ones eyes , and not in one’s hands, for the hands execute but the eye judges. Visual Impairment in the Classroom

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Special Needs Seminar with focus on Visual Impairment & Assistive Technologies

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  1. Special Needs Seminar with focus on Visual Impairment & Assistive Technologies that can be used in the classroom…

  2. It is necessary to keep a compass in ones eyes , and not in one’s hands, for the hands execute but the eye judges.

  3. Visual Impairment in the Classroom For a child to be classified as "Visually Impaired", there must be a medically verified visual impairment accompanied by limitation in sight. Furthermore, this impairment must interfere with acquiring information or interaction with the environment to the extent that special education and related services are needed. Examples of Visual Impairment include, but are not limited to: - Glaucoma. Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness. It is a group of diseases of the eye, causing progressive damage to the optic nerve by build-up pressure in the eyeball. - Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP). RP occurs when the retina in both eyes slowly deteriorate, causing problems with night vision and peripheral vision. RP often leads to legal blindness. - Cataract. A cataract is a clouding of the eye lens caused by an infection, hereditary, severe malnutrition, or trauma. - Albanism. Albanism is impaired vision due to an inherited deficiency of the pigmentation in the eye.

  4. two Technologies which assist the visually impaired in the classroom Screen readers Digital talking books

  5. THE DIGITAL TALKING BOOK Imagine: a student with a disability logs onto the Internet, browses through a catalog of school textbooks, and downloads an anthology of literature assigned for her English class. Then, following a few simple instructions, the text for chapter one appears on the screen and is highlighted, as a human voice begins to read. With a new system pioneered by Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic(RFBD), this scenario will soon become reality for thousands of students who cannot access information in standard print-based textbooks. The visually impaired student, under the supervision of the teacher would now be on the same learning wavelength as his fellow “regular” classmate.

  6. THE SCREEN READER Screen readers identify and interpret aloud what is being displayed on a computer screen. That is the interpretation is then represented to the user with text-speech, sound icons, or a braille output. This form of assisted technology aids the teacher in the classroom by providing a sense of independent work by the student although visually impaired. While the student listens instead of reads the assigned tasks or gathers the information required, the teacher spends less actual teaching time and more time coaching and clarifying.

  7. This has been our brief power point presentation on visual impairment in the classroom. Please explore the rest of our blog for more entertaining pieces relating to this disability and ways in which the divide can be overcome within the walls of the classroom hand in hand with technological assistance.

  8. List of References American Foundation for the Blind. ( ) Educating students with visual impairments for inclusion in society. Retrieved http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=44&TopicID=189&DocumentID=1344 King, A. (2001) WebbIE. Retrieved from http://www.webbie.org.uk/ Users Screenreader.net CIC, 7, the Rookery, Peterboroug, PE2 6YT, 2011, Orton Wistow, Retreived March,2011 from http://www.screenreader.net/index.php?pageid=35h. The George Lucas Educational Institution, 2011, What works in Education, retrieved 24 Mar, 2011 from http://www.edutopia.org/digital-textbooks-new-hope-for-visually-impaired

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