Teaching Children with Visual Impairment: Creating Empowering Classrooms

In the education of children with visual impairment, there is a global movement away from segregated special schooling, and towards inclusive neighbourhood schools. Inclusion provides an opportunity for everyone, teachers as well as learners, to become more acquainted about life with visual impairment and to overcome some of the barriers of difference which have existed in the past. But if it is to be successful, teachers and others require key skills and insights in order to create classroom en

• Recognize that different eye conditions affect learning and behavior differently
• Use tools to create empowering, inclusive, and accessible classrooms
• Apply curriculum differentiation strategies including the Expanded Core Curriculum