MODULE 8- Learners with Additional Needs

Learners with Difficulty Seeing

INTRODUCTION

Vision is perhaps the most important distance sense for interpreting the world around us.
It helps us to perceive and understand as to what is taking place around us. It provides a
continual feedback and a frame reference for action. Eyes are one of the primary organs that are
fully developed at birth. Visual abilities improve rapidly during the first years of life. For all of
us, vision is the primary way we master skills for physical, psychosocial and cognitive aspects of
self and environment.
Vision is a distance sense, which provides information from outside
our bodies. The term “visual impairment” is used as a generic term.
Often other terms like blind and low vision are also used, depending
on the nature and degree of loss, which in turn affects the individual
in significant way like difficulty in mobility, access to printed
information and independent living.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
After working through this Module you should be able to :
a. Define legal and educational blind;
b. enumerate and describe the types and causes of the problems of the vision;
c. enumerate and describe the assessment procedures in determining the cognitive ability,
communication skills and socio-behavioral traits of student with problems in vision
d. enumerate and describe the types of educational programs and instructional strategies for
students with vision problems.
e. gain inspiration from the abilities of person who are blind or have low vision

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