Visual Impairments

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Visual Impairments

Visual Impairments

1. Learn more about people with Visual Impairments

Definition

2. How to help and include someone with Visual Impairments

Visual Impairment Courtesies

3. Activities to understand more about Visual Impairments

Activity Leaders: When conducting any of the following activities with groups your objectives should be to help your group:

1) Understand more about the disability

2) Recognize how people with disabilities are similar as well as different

3) Understand how with accommodation they can accomplish many of the same things as everyone else

Many of the following activities include these components.

Visual Impairment: Classroom Activities (K-6)

What's in the Bag? (K-6)

The Braille Alphabet

Vision Disabilities: Central Vision, Tunnel Vision, Wearing a Blindfold (3-6)

Mailing a Letter (3-6)

Activities and Simulations - Deafness (3-6)

Getting to Know Your Classmates with Special Needs (3-MS)

Seeing the World through the Hands of People with a Visual Disability (4-6)

Trust Walk (4-6)

General Activity-Meeting and Introducing a Person with VI (MS/HS)

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