EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH LOW VISION IN HINDI || कम दृष्टि वाले बच्चों की शिक्षा : D.Ed. Special Education (Visual Impairment)

EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH LOW VISION IN HINDI || कम दृष्टि वाले बच्चों की शिक्षा : D.Ed. Special Education (Visual Impairment) 

Learning Outcomes:

On the completion of this Course, the pupil-teachers will be able to:

• Acquire understanding of low vision conditions and its associated implications in
educational context;

• Understand and use classroom and related strategies to cater the specific needs of
students with low vision;

• Acquire knowledge and skills related with low vision devices and adaptations;

• Describe the need and importance of environmental modifications to meet the
educational need of children with low vision;

• Acquire and use skills of functional assessment and to organize vision training activities;
Course Content

Unit 1: Understanding Low vision

1.1. Understanding Vision & Visual Deficits (Visual Acuity, Visual Field) & Legal
Definitions;

1.2. Diseases and Conditions causing Low Vision;

1.3. Psychological Implications of Low Vision in Children;

1.4. Educational Implications of Low Vision in Children;

1.5. Early Identification & Intervention ;

Unit 2: Functional Vision & Vision Training

2.1. Visual Skills & Functional Vision;

2.2. Carrying out Functional Vision Assessment;

2.3 Visual Stimulation: Concept and Method;

2.4 Concept & Procedure for increasing Visual Efficiency;

2.5. Factors affecting Visual Efficiency Training Programme;

Unit 3: Aids & Adaptations

3.1. Magnification: Concept & Limitations;

3.2. Optical Devices: Selection and Use;

3.3. Computer and Mobile based Magnification Solutions;

3.4. Non-Optical Devices;

3.5. Adaptation & Environmental Modifications (Contrast, Illumination, Large Print, etc.);

Unit 4: Classroom related Strategies

4.1. Classroom Management & Curricular Adaptation for Children with Low Vision;

4.2. Appropriate Medium of Reading and Writing and Improving Reading and Writing Skills;

4.3. Strategies for better Peer Group Cohesion & Cooperative Learning;

4.4. Applying UDL & Appropriate Strategies for Classroom Assessment;

4.5. Addressing the needs of Students with Low Vision with Additional Disabilities;

Unit 5: Participation & Community Intervention

5.1. Addressing identity Issues in Children with Low Vision;

5.2. Independent Living Skill (including Orientation and mobility);

5.3. Recreational & Sports Activities;

5.4 Schemes & Benefits for Persons with Low Vision and their families/community;

5.5. Environmental Modifications at Home & Public Places;