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1. Basic Teaching Approaches
Visually impaired children cannot learn by imitation through visual experience alone. They need to do it through their other senses also, such as sense of hearing and sense of touch. Appropriate teaching aids should therefore be used to allow them to touch and learn from concrete experience. What they have learnt will thus be clearer and more accurate.
2. Use of Verbal Instructions
Instructions and explanations given by the teacher should be clear and concise. The teacher should read out clearly everything written on the blackboard. When speaking to the children, he should first address them by their names to ensure attention. To make sure that the children understand what is taught, he should ask them questions when necessary.
3. Management of Printed Materials and Diagrams
According to the visual condition of individual children, the teacher should choose appropriate teaching materials to meet their individual learning needs. Printed materials and diagrams may have to be adapted by using contrasting colours, tactile marks, enlarged size, increased boldness, adequate spacing, etc. In producing tactile diagrams for these children, the teacher should note the following:
- choose diagrams of appropriate sizes to suit the fingertips of totally blind or severe low vision children
- simplify cluttered or superimposed diagrams without compromising accuracy
- emphasize the most important areas, lines and points in tactile diagrams;
- avoid cluttering too much information and coding on one page, or this will confuse the children.
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