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Joseph Paul Nemargut – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2025
The role of an orientation & mobility (O&M) specialist is essential to provide professional training and recommendations to promote safe, independent street crossings for people who are blind or have low vision. This article provides novel approaches to teaching crossing strategies using tactile maps to individuals with visual impairments…
Descriptors: Maps, Assistive Technology, Visually Impaired Mobility, Travel Training
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Zahraa A. Ali; Ibtisam Rashid; Shafeah H. Al-Merri; Naser Abu Erjaib; Dduha Chehadeh – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
A science camp for blind or visually impaired (BVI) students, covering mainly hands-on chemistry experiments, is described. The scientific experiments are detailed, and the feedback of the students is recorded, highlighting the benefits of the camp and its impact. BVI students actively participated in conducting the scientific experiments using…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Students with Disabilities, Visual Impairments, Blindness
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D'Agostino, Alfred T. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Symbolic, spatial, and visual information, which is important for comprehending and learning physical and natural sciences, is not readily accessible to blind and low-vision (BLV) students in the undergraduate chemistry classroom, laboratory, and virtual environment via conventional means (through print and images), thus, creating a…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Undergraduate Students, Chemistry, Blindness
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Zabrocka, Monika – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2021
Purpose: This article's aim is to discuss the potential of audio description (AD) in two contexts: (1) developmental and educational difficulties experienced by children with low vision or total blindness; (2) psycho-social importance of access to mass media by children and adolescents. Method: The considerations presented here are formed on the…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Visual Impairments, Blindness, Children
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Vaughn, Sharon; Alsolami, Abdulaziz; Swanson, Elizabeth – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2023
To best support students with low vision in the general education classroom, special education teachers can facilitate use of several adaptations including: (a) attention to curriculum access (e.g. text magnifiers), (b) mechanisms for promoting social connectedness, (c) managing physical space, and (d) effective instructional techniques. This…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Visual Impairments, Blindness, Partial Vision
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Kapperman, Gaylen; Kelly, Stacy M.; LeRette-Kauffman, Heidi – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2021
There is a critical need for Americans to study foreign languages to support the United States' participation in a global economy, commitment to national security, and actions in the political arena. However, there is a lack of American students learning what the US Department of State refers to as "critical languages," which are less…
Descriptors: Russian, Second Language Instruction, Visual Impairments, Blindness
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Kapperman, Gaylen; Ortner, Adrian; Midgley, Siobhan – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2021
The BrailleNote Touch+ (BNT+) can be a valuable tool for students who are blind who are learning a second or third language. Kapperman, Koster, and Burman (2018) stressed the importance of using a screen reader, as well as a braille display, when learning a foreign language because it allows a student to not only orally learn the language but also…
Descriptors: Blindness, Visual Impairments, Assistive Technology, Braille
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Lanbon, John Biitian; Lee, Kenny Cheah Soon; Yan-Li, Siaw – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2022
The paper examines the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in special education in Ghana. Taking the relevant literature as the guiding principle, the paper addresses the opportunities, barriers, and challenges posed by the integration of assistive technologies devices in schools for the blind and visually impaired in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Assistive Technology, Students with Disabilities
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Velloso, M.; Arana, M.; Acioly, V.; Santos, A. C. F. – Physics Education, 2021
The COVID-19 Pandemic interrupted university activities at the beginning of the first semester of 2020, forcing the academic community to reinvent itself to meet the determinations of social isolation. The use of assistive technologies such as information and communication technologies has never been more welcome. However, for a college student…
Descriptors: Blindness, Teaching Methods, Distance Education, Undergraduate Students
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Kelly, Stacy M. – Advances in Special Education, 2018
This chapter discusses the elements of interventions provided to students who are visually impaired within the context of past instructional advancements still in effect today and current instructional advancements preparing the field for tomorrow. Disability-specific interventions and the theoretical framework that encompasses the unique areas of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Students with Disabilities, Visual Impairments, Blindness
National Center on Deaf-Blindness, 2022
This brief, co-produced by the National Center on Deaf-Blindness (NCDB) and Accessible Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Systems (ATLAS), provides important information about students with dual sensory loss who also have significant cognitive disabilities, as well as recommendations for identification and implications for instruction. The…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Severe Disabilities, Deaf Blind, Students with Disabilities
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Mastro, James V.; Johnston, Patrick K.; Coggins, Porter E., III – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2017
This article presents a very brief history of recreational and competitive darts, presents relevant neurological systems pertinent to throwing darts, discusses dart equipment, and talks about techniques of throwing darts as a recreational and competitive sport. In particular, the performance aspect of darts for individuals with visual impairment…
Descriptors: Athletics, Physical Education, Recreational Activities, Competition
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Watson, Sandy; Bell, Jeremy – Science Teacher, 2022
The "Next Generation Science Standards" (NGSS) stress the need for all students to receive excellent science instruction--including those with disabilities--based upon disciplinary core ideas, crosscutting concepts, and science and engineering practices (NGSS Lead States 2013). Further, the NGSS emphasize reducing disparities in student…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Students with Disabilities, Student Needs, Accessibility (for Disabled)
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Kapperman, Gaylen; Kelly, Stacy M.; Koster, Elizabeth – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2018
Methods commonly used to enhance the language-learning experiences of students who are visually impaired (that is, those who are blind or have low vision), are not sufficient for foreign language learning. There are several challenges involved in the study of foreign languages by students who are visually impaired. One of the most pressing of…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Blindness, Braille, Assistive Technology
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Thatcher, Leslie; Rosenblum, L. Penny – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2021
To prepare high school graduates with visual impairments for college, staff members at Perkins School for the Blind developed a nine month residential program, College Success@Perkins. This article describes components of the program design and provides data on eight students who successfully completed the program in the first cohort. It concludes…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, College Readiness, Visual Impairments, Blindness
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