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Kulwinder Pal, Lovely Professional University Unit 9: Visually Impaired: Preventions and Teaching Strategies

Unit 9: Visually Impaired: Preventions and Teaching Notes

Strategies

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
9.1 Prevention of Visually Impairment
9.2 Teaching Strategies for Visually Impaired Children
9.3 Summary
9.4 Keywords
9.5 Review Questions
9.6 Further Readings

Objectives

The objectives of this unit can be summarized as below:
• to explain about prevention of visually impaired children.
• to describe the teaching strategies for visually impaired children.

Introduction

Despite the availability of much WHO information on the magnitude and causes of blindness and
strategies for their prevention, policy-makers and health providers in many countries are evidently
not fully aware of available eye-care interventions, their cost–effectiveness and their potential to
prevent or treat the 80% of global blindness that is avoidable.
Students who are classified as visually impaired will fall into one of two classes. The first, and less
severe, class of visual impairments is low vision. Students who are classified as low vision use sight
to learn, but their disability interferes with functioning. The second class of visual impairments is
blindness, and students who are blind use their touch and hearing to function each day. For any of
these students, routines and specific accommodations are very important in the classroom. We shall
prevention and teaching strategies of visual impairment.
9.1 Prevention of Visually Impairment

There are following prevention methods of visual impairment :
• Protect the eyes from excessive exposure to sun rays, intensive heat, X-rays and injuries.
• Educate families that night blindness is an early warning sign of xerophthalmia and can be
treated by feeding vitamin A in oil by mouth.
• Take a good and nourishing diet rich in protein and vitamin, such as milk, papaya, mango,
carrot, spinach, egg and fish.
• Obtain suitable glasses after gettingthe eyes tested.
• Power of glasses changes with the progress of cataract.
• Organize eye check up camps with the involvement of the local eye hospital or the local
Ophthalmic Surgeons.
• Arrange for the eye check up of all these cases and provide suitable glasses or eye drops etc.

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