What are the educational intervention strategies for a child with visual impairment in an ECDE centre?

      

Highlight educational intervention strategies for a child with visual impairment in an ECDE centre.

  

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Maurice
(i) Encourage Albinos to wear tinted glasses/ hats as recommended by optician to avoid glaring.

(ii) Writing in bold clear writing to facilitate reading.

(iii) Training of children in orientation and mobility/ daily living skills to ease movement and access services.

(iv) Give educational guidance to enable them cope.

(v) Provide specialized instructional materials/ reading stand/ large print materials.

(vi) Make pavements barrier free to enable the child move freely.

(vii) Provide good lighting.

(viii) Referral to a special school for the blind.

(ix) Notify parents to seek medical attention for the child in good time.

(x) Encourage/ train them use listening skills.

(xi) Treat the visually impaired in the same way as the sighted.

(xii) Assign sighted children to act as a guide when needed.
maurice.mutuku answered the question on August 25, 2017 at 07:01


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