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| Title | Advice for Teaching the Visually Impaired |
| Body | A recent request on the FLTEACH listserv for tips for teaching students with visual impairments received a number of suggestions. Here is one teacher's success story; look for more advice next week. ---- I had a blind student for a little over 1.5 years. He started out in my Spanish 1 class second semester after struggling with his first Spanish teacher. The biggest "extra" thing I had to do for him was get everything I was going to hand out to the class put into braille a couple of days ahead of time... and that's what his previous teacher was not getting done on time. It was challenging to me because I use so many visual clues, gestures, expressions, etc., to make my students understand the language, but he was able to follow along amazingly well. I sat him with a buddy who sometimes helped him to follow along, but I also found that the best thing for me to do was simply get him the materials ahead of time, then also to check & see if he was confused by anything during class that I could help clarify. The best thing for him was always having a buddy, and several of the students were more than happy to sit with him. I kept changing the buddy so that he could work with various people, but when he asked if he could stay with one friend in particular, I let them stay together most of the time because they worked so well together. Have fun! Get organized ahead of time with your handouts and quizzes! Rachman, B. Re: Visually impaired students. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (23 Aug. 2006). |
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| Inputdate | 2006-09-09 15:16:00 |
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