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• Recreation and leisure skills
• Career education skills
• Use of Assistive technology
• Visual efficiency skills (later changed to Sensory efficiency
skills)
• Self-determination skills
Rationale
One of the most powerful impacts of visual impairment is the
limited awareness of the affected individual of the activities in which
others, both peers and adults, are engaged. Not knowing what
others are doing limits one's impulse to imitate those actions and to
explore one's own capabilities. For example, it would not be
surprising that a child who is blind might not know that others cut
their own meat or that flirting involves certain eye and facial
behaviors. The most immediate effect of this limited awareness of
others is a tendency toward passivity, a potential threat to self-
determined behavior.
Another impact related to having limited visual access is not
being able to imitate the way that others perform tasks. Even for
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