Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBE-Q 66.4 FALL 2021

A quarterly newsletter from the Council for Exceptional Children's Division on Visual Impairments containing practitioner tips for Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments, Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and other professionals.

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VIDBE-Q Volume 66 Issue 4 What Do We Do? Knowing the signs of anxiety and depression is not enough. Below are ways we can help children with visual impairment reduce the number and severity of their emotional problems? • Build a trusting relationship. When support is offered by someone they know and trust, youth are more likely to consider suggestions, try new strategies, and successfully develop the skills needed to manage their mental health. • Connect students to peers and adults who have a vision loss. Anxiety about the future can be reduced by providing youth with opportunities to connect with both peers and adults with vision loss who are living, learning, and working independently. • Help students learn skills to initiate relationships that will lead to friendships. Students must master typical tasks of childhood adolescence like forming close friendships and navigating how to gain access to peer groups rather than engaging only in solitary and parallel play.

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