Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBEQ.61.2.Spring.2016

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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; Lorem Ipsum Dolor Spring 2016 7 • 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 122

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