Mathematics Instruction for Students with Visual
Impairments: What is there and where can we go
Joan Adrienne Malasig, Student, Rutgers University,
joanadrienn.malasig@rutgers.edu, and
Dake Zhang, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University,
dake.zhang@gse.rutgers.edu
With funding from Aresty Undergraduate Research Program at
Rutgers University, we conducted a review of literature on existing
intervention studies for teaching mathematics to students with visual
impairments (VI). We were interested in examining the
effectiveness of existing methods to instruct students with VI to
learn mathematics and in evaluating the research rigor of the
existing interventions, with the aim to provide a solid understanding
of what has been done and where we should go in research on
teaching mathematics to students with VI. This study was
presented in CEC 2016 in St Louis, MO, and was published in
Journal of Childhood & Developmental Disorders.
We found this topic very important. World Health Organization
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