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Special Education

Notes 6.10 Summary

• Prevention of Visual Impairment: Proper nourishment of child at the time of prebirth and post
birth, is essential breast feed vitamin A rich colostrum green leafy vegatables, yellow-orange
fruits (papaya, mango) are major sources to avoid visual impairments.
• Awareness of parents towards eye problems and care for children are very important to the
child.
• Eye camps for the treatment and prevention of ye problems is very popular in public organized
by government.
• Teaching strategies for Visual Impairment: There are many teaching strategies for visual
impairment.
• Enlarged activity script, directions, or reading, use of overhead projector, Braille label marker,
and raised line drawing are some of the visual impairment techniques.
• Prevention for Hearing Impairment: Use of hearing protector, avoid high noise place, are
some preventive measures.
• We should not use hairpin or other object in our ear to remove earwax.
• Teaching Strategies: Teacher should set the circular seating arrangement for hearing impaired
child.
• Report of question or remarks, flexible in teaching to deaf students, to give visual clippings for
student.
• Use of audio visual aid is some of the main teaching strategies for hearing impaired children.
• Prevention for Speech impaired Children: Protection from early childhood diseases like measles,
mumps. The availability of proper medical care before and after birth is crucial.
• TV or radio advertisements may reach some families, different approaches might be more effective
when informing other families are very effective for awareness about these diseases.
• Teaching strategies for Speech impaired children: Teacher should reduce unnecessary
classroom noise, give vocal instructions and verbal clues, use gestures that support
understanding, be patient when child is speaking and provide a quiet spot for the student to
work whenever possible.
• Prevention for Physical Disability Orthopedic Impairment: It is important to focus on health
education, nutrition and immunization.
• It is also necessary to raise awareness of the importance of cleanliness, medical care and nutrition
for the development strong bones, Vulcanization to prevent polio and post-polio syndrome.
• Teaching Strategies: Special seating arrangement for physical disabled children, securing
suitable augmentative communication, awareness of medical condition is some of the teaching
strategies.
• Use of special furniture, modified writing aids, lesson plans and activities and inclusive classroom
is very popular.

6.11 Keywords
• Prevention : The act of stopping something bad from happing.
• Vaccine : A substance that is put into the blood and that protects the body from disease.
• Approach : A way of doing or thinking about something such as a problems or task.
• Portable : That is easy to carry or to move.

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