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| Title | Advice for Teaching the Visually Impaired (Part 3) |
| Body | This last installment of our mini-series on teaching the visually impaired recommends several Web sites with references to reading material and other information. ---- I don't have direct experience teaching foreign languages to students with visual impairment (VI), but I do have a professional and research interest in foreign language learners with special educational needs, including sensory impairments. On my Web site at http://www.specialeducationalneeds.com/case/vi.html I have a teacher-training case study of a foreign language learner with visual impairment. There are VI language learning-related links leading to further information and practical guidance which could be of use. The VI section of my online bibliography of modern foreign languages and special educational needs, listed under "Further reading", contains 110 online and printed references. A further 13 references relating to the use of technology in teaching foreign languages to the visually impaired can be found in the VI section of my "References to support inclusion in modern foreign languages with information and communications technologies" at http://www.specialeducationalneeds.com/mfl/mflsenictbiblio.pdf Good luck, and be aware that visual impairment, like deafness, is a spectrum, so many people with VI have some useable residual vision. Like the sighted population, they all have different characters and abilities too, so it's important to treat the student as an individual who happens to have VI. Make the student part of the solution by asking him/her which strategies and activities work best, find out about the student's educational history, read any documentation written about the student by VI professionals and feed back anything you yourself learn along the way to the relevant educational personnel, which in my case here in the UK would be the school's special educational needs coordinator. And let us know how you get on - then we can all learn from the experience! David Wilson Harton Technology College, South Shields, UK http://www.specialeducationalneeds.com Wilson, D. Re: Visually impaired students. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (23 Aug. 2006). |
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