Teaching Learners with Visual Impairment

This book, Teaching Learners with Visual Impairment, focuses on holistic support to learners with visual impairment in and beyond the classroom and school context. Special attention is given to classroom practice, learning support, curriculum differentiation and assessment practices, to mention but a few areas of focus covered in the book. In this manner, this book makes a significant contribution to the existing body of knowledge on the implementation of inclusive education policy with learners affected by visual impairment

Teaching Learners with Visual Impairment

This book, Teaching Learners with Visual Impairment, focuses on holistic support to learners with visual impairment in and beyond the classroom and school context. Special attention is given to classroom practice, learning support, curriculum differentiation and assessment practices, to mention but a few areas of focus covered in the book. In this manner, this book makes a significant contribution to the existing body of knowledge on the implementation of inclusive education policy with learners affected by visual impairment

TEDI 3 Week 1 - Understanding low vision in the classroom (Hestelle Viljoen)

In this video, Hestelle Viljoen discusses the ways in which children with visual impairment experience classroom education. She discusses the different kinds of visual impairment, such as central vision loss, peripheral vision loss, interrupted vision, and other impairments, and how these have specific impacts on classroom learning. She discusses how the diversity of potential visual impairments require different strategies to ameliorate them in the classroom setting, and emphasises the importance of communicating with the learner to develop appropriate interventions

TEDI 3 Week 1 - Including Children with Visual Impairement in the Classroom

In this video, Hestelle Viljoen, a former principal of a school of children with visual disabilities in South Africa, discusses how visual impairment affects learning in the classroom. She discusses the different kinds of visual impairment learners can experience and how their needs can be accommodated in the classroom allowing them to follow the same curriculum as sighted students. She also discusses the importance of incorporating different stakeholders (such as community members, teachers, specialists, and the students themselves), and then discusses some specific techniques that can be used in the learning environment to support their learning