Visual impairment refers to any vision loss that adversely affects a child's educational performance, even with correction. It includes both partial sight and blindness. Visual impairments are classified as moderate, severe, or profound depending on the extent vision can be used as an educational tool. About ten million people in the United States are visually impaired and accommodations may include concreteness, unifying experiences, learning by doing, and partners.

1. TE 803 RAY FORSTAT PARKER BROWN Visual Impairment

2. What is it? Visual Impairment is a term that describes any kind of vision loss. According to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 1997: A visual impairment refers to “an impairment in vision that, even with correction, adversely affects a child’s educational performance. The term includes both partial sight and blindness.”

3. Classifications Moderate - works well with visual aids; often to the extent of eliminating the effects of the impairment. Severe - difficulty in a learning environment, even with visual aids, but s/he can use vision to some degree in the learning process. Profound - cannot use vision as an educational tool and must rely on their remaining senses

4. Interesting… According to The American Foundation for the Blind, about ten million people in the United States are visually impaired.

5. How to Accommodate? Concreteness Unifying experiences Learning by doing Partners

6. What Would it Be Like? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9CawJSUy2c