;
Lorem Ipsum Dolor Spring 2016
5
Hatlen and Curry (1987) and Curry and Hatlen (1988)
explained that the need for this disability specific curriculum results
from the impact of visual impairment on learning. Blindness and low
vision have the potential to interfere with the natural acquisition of
skills in these areas. Consequently, focused instruction in the
components of the expanded core curriculum, using techniques to
overcome the limitations imposed by visual impairment, is
necessary to ensure their mastery by students whose impairment
limits their access to the environment. By 1995, the framers of The
National Agenda for the Education of Children and Youths with
Visual Impairments, Including Those with Multiple Disabilities (Corn,
Hatlen, Huebner, Ryan, & Siller), included as Goal 8 of their
national plan the achievement of an educational system in which
"educational and developmental goals, including instruction, will
reflect the assessed needs of each student in all areas of academic
and disability-specific core curricula" (p. 23). Heumann and Hehir
(1995) reiterated the importance of addressing students' specific
120
