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Knox, Roger – Special Education: Forward Trends, 1983
The author discusses the advantages and made to measure microcomputer programs for the partially sighted student. Several strategies for using the microcomputer in the classroom are suggested. (SW)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Microcomputers, Partial Vision, Teaching Methods

Hart, Cheri R. – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 1999
Discusses various methods used to teach Braille, beginning with pre-Braille skills that must be developed before children reach school age. Also discusses various techniques used to teach Braille skills to students who have a severe vision loss or low vision and reviews different commercial programs designed to teach Braille reading to various…
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Elementary Secondary Education, Partial Vision

Tobin, Michael – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1985
The author examines research on the reading skills of students with partial vision, noting the educationally handicapping consequences (including problems in rapidly implementing alternative scanning strategies), and suggesting implications for placement and instructional decisions. (CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Partial Vision, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills

Lopez-Justicia, Maria Dolores; Pichardo, Maria Carmen; Amezcua, Juan Antonio; Fernandez, Eduardo – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2001
Three studies of Spanish students with low vision, aged 4-7, 8-11, and 12-17, found that, overall, the participants' scores for some dimensions of self-concept were lower than those of comparison groups of sighted students. Teaching strategies such as cooperative learning are suggested to help improve the self-concept and academic performance of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries

Corn, Anne L. – RE:view, 1989
A comprehensive program of instruction in the use of low vision is proposed, including definitions, a philosophy of low vision, theoretical constructs, a flow chart of professional and individual relationships and responsibilities, goals, curriculum, and an evaluation system. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Adults, Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education, Low Vision Aids

Ashley, Julia R.; Cates, Dennis L. – RE:view, 1992
A survey of teachers of the visually impaired and adults with albinism or parents of children with albinism (total responses=144) found no use of Braille by the adults or children with albinism, awareness of the condition by almost all teachers, support for mainstreaming by all, and specific teaching suggestions from teachers. (DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Braille, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education
Lusk, Kelly E.; Corn, Anne L. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2006
This is the second part of a two-part report of a study about the instruction of children who are learning or using both braille and print simultaneously (dual media). It explores the instructional methods and curricular decisions of teaching dual media to students with low vision and reports the students' current literacy levels and reading rates…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Braille, Reading Rate, Teacher Expectations of Students
Wright, Suzette – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1987
As there is uncertainty surrounding black light safety, caution should be exercised in using it as a vision training tool with visually handicapped students--particularly aphakic and albino students, young students, and those taking photosensitizing drugs. The use of ultraviolet-blocking filters or lenses is recommended during black light…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Persons, Light, Partial Vision

Holbrook, M. C.; Koenig, A. J. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1992
This article discusses ways to teach low vision students to read braille, including both parallel instruction (the student learns to read print and braille simultaneously) and nonparallel instruction (the print-reading student learns braille). The following approaches are briefly described: basal reader, language experience, whole language,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basal Reading, Braille, Elementary Secondary Education
Ashley, Julia Robertson – 1992
This booklet, intended for regular education teachers who have children with albinism in their classes, begins with an explanation of albinism, then discusses the special needs of the student with albinism in the classroom, and presents information about adaptations and other methods for responding to these needs. Special social and emotional…
Descriptors: Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Classroom Techniques, Congenital Impairments, Elementary Secondary Education
Wurzbach, Linda – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1988
The reading process and the history of teaching reading to Braille, print, and aural readers are reviewed. Variables in effective reading instruction programs for visually impaired children include teaching methods, assessment methods, qualities and competencies of teachers, other deficits of visually impaired students that exacerbate reading…
Descriptors: Braille, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Partial Vision

Koenig, Alan J. – Peabody Journal of Education, 1990
Discusses variables in the systematic decision-making process for selecting appropriate reading media for students with visual impairments. The article describes a two-phase process for selecting print or braille media. It examines an objective procedure for determining the relative effectiveness of print media, illustrating the procedure with…
Descriptors: Braille, Case Studies, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Eaves, Ronald C.; McLaughlin, Phillip J. – 1981
The curriculum on academic programing is intended to be a resource, subject to updating as necessary, for education of blind and partially sighted middle school students at the Georgia Academy for the Blind. Information about core skills in teaching is presented in the first four chapters with the following titles: "Introduction to Academic…
Descriptors: Blindness, Curriculum Guides, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Objectives
Ashley, Julia Robertson – 1992
This practicum report addresses the educational needs of students with the visual disability of ocular or oculocutaneous albinism. Two booklets were developed, published, and distributed--one for regular education teachers of children with albinism and one specifically about the very young child with albinism. The booklets discuss the special…
Descriptors: Congenital Impairments, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines

Corn, Anne L.; Koenig, Alan J. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2002
A study involving 40 experts in teaching literacy skills to students with low vision identified the levels of direct and consultative instructional services needed for teaching literacy skills to such students. Findings support the need to provide consistent, direct instruction in almost all areas of literacy and literacy-related skills. (Contains…
Descriptors: Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Consultation Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Emergent Literacy
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