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  • Instructional Accommodations: Making the Learning Environment Accessible to Students with Visual Disabilities (Archived)
Challenge
Initial Thoughts
Perspectives & Resources

What does Ms. Milton need to know about students with visual impairments?

  • 1: Basic Needs and Where to Collect Information
  • 2: What It Means to Have a Visual Impairment
  • 3: How Visual Impairments Impact Learning
  • 4: The Need for an Expanded Core Curriculum

What should Ms. Milton consider when creating lesson plans to ensure the inclusion of Evan and Emily?

  • 5: Educational Materials
  • 6: Instructional Methods Inside the Classroom
  • 7: Events Outside of the Classroom

How can Ms. Milton facilitate Evan’s and Emily’s social adjustment?

  • 8: Common Courtesy and Effective Communication
  • 9: The Development of Social Skills

Resources

  • 10 References & Additional Resources
  • 11: Credits
Wrap Up
Assessment
Provide Feedback

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Page 11: Credits

To cite this module, please use the following:

The IRIS Center. (2005). Instructional accommodations: Making the learning environment accessible to students with visual disabilities. Retrieved from
https://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/module/v02-successsight/

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