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Exploring Methods Used by Teachers to Create Meaningful Learning Environments for Students with Visual Impairments
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Jaime Pack-Adair – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The topic of this study was to provide a description of instruction identified and provided by teachers of students with visual impairments. It was not known how teachers describe vision interventions, environmental adaptations, and educational modifications for students with cortical visual impairment. The study was conducted in Southwest…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Visual Impairments, Teaching Methods, Intervention
Improving Vision Awareness in Autism Services: Evaluation of a Dedicated Education Programme for Support Practitioners
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Long, Joseph J.; Butchart, Maggie; Brown, Michael; Bain, Janice; McMillan, Anne; Karatzias, Thanos – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2018
Background: The research reported here sought to evaluate whether a dedicated education programme in vision awareness improved the knowledge and skills of autism support practitioners in identifying visual impairment in autistic people with intellectual disabilities and providing better support to those individuals identified as visually impaired.…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Visual Impairments, Vision
The Need for a Uniform Method of Recording and Reporting Functional Vision Assessments
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Shaw, Rona; Russotti, Joanne; Strauss-Schwartz, Judy; Vail, Helen; Kahn, Ronda – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2009
The use of functional vision by school-age students who have visual impairments, including those with additional disabilities, is typically reported by teachers of students with visual impairments. Functional vision assessments determine how well a student uses his or her vision to perform tasks throughout the school day. The information that is…
Descriptors: Intervention, Visual Impairments, Vision, Developmental Delays
Using Adaptive Tools and Techniques to Teach a Class of Students Who Are Blind or Low-Vision
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Supalo, Cary A.; Mallouk, Thomas E.; Amorosi, Christeallia; Lanouette, James; Wohlers, H. David; McEnnis, Kathleen – Journal of Chemical Education, 2009
A brief overview of the 2007 National Federation of the Blind-Jernigan Institute Youth Slam Chemistry Track, a course of study within a science camp that provided firsthand experimental experience to 200 students who are blind and low-vision, is given. For many of these students, this was their first hands-on experience with laboratory chemistry.…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Vision, Chemistry, Science Laboratories
Teaching Visually Impaired Children. 3rd Edition
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Bishop, Virginia E. – Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd, 2004
In this exceptional new third edition, the author has retained much of the practical "how to" approach of the previous editions, but adds depth in two dimensions: learning theory and the educational process. This book is "so comprehensive in scope and complete in detail that it would be the most likely recommended" (from the foreword by Dr.…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Family Needs, Visual Impairments, Teaching Methods
Teaching Visually Impaired Children. Second Edition.
Bishop, Virginia E. – 1996
Intended for either the general educator or the specialist, this text offers principles and teaching strategies for teaching students with visual impairments including both blind students and those with low vision. The book is organized into three sections: "Vision,""Learning," and "Testing and Transitions." The four chapters in the "Vision"…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Blindness, Child Development, Clinical Diagnosis