VISUAL IMPAIRMENT LEARNING CURVES
There are many reasons why visually impaired students are having a hard time and most of them are associated in psychological factors. A blind person may lack in confidence since they feel that they do not belong to a normal world and so they tend to be silent when within the group or with other people, this maybe their first and foremost hindrance in learning. A blind student when enrolled in a regular school may feel awkward with their classmates when they feel that they are often the butt of joke, they may not feel comfortable inside the class. They may not be able to perform well and that it seems that they have to always catch up when doing school work and assignment.
Probably the greatest difficulty they may experience is the dependency of people and family who are over protective about these people that when they are left to school to learn for the first time they may even be the one who are scared. At the same time over dependency of a blind person may even cripple his mind to learn.
Normally teachers may say that these kinds of students are encountering low morale or low self esteem, they may be sometimes shy or unspoken. There are times that they may be aggressive and non cooperative. Sometimes they are hard to deal with and at the same time a visually impaired student can be very sensitive and they simply refuse to learn. All this contributes to the child’s low learning behavioral curve.
On the other hand if a child who live in a comfortable and healthy atmosphere and on a family who continuously living with encouragement, love and understanding a visually impaired student may feel secured and confident inside and outside their home. They may even feel proud and without impairment thus, their capacity in learning is as natural as an ordinary student. Or you may hear visually impaired students to have an outstanding record in class. Obviously what a child need is more than financial support but love and understanding. When they feel that there is someone who believed in them no matter what they are and they will never be alone.
Basically Braille system is used for students who are blind they can easily grasp through books that are especially designed for them. This has been an old yet effective means to teach the student with this kind of imparities and until now it is being used for special schools for the blind. These books are the basic key to a child education since it almost has the same information in a regular book they can get to learn. Today there is also Braille magazine and Braille bibles.
Special school for the blind is a school exclusively for the visually impaired individual they are designed for comfort. Their rooms are highly accessible for the student and the materials and equipment are soothed for their convenience, the teacher are experienced to handle such students and their training capability is easily adaptable for visually impaired persons, they are highly trained and undergone extensive training in this field. Their classmates do have basically the same imparities so they may have the same capacity or not much difference in learning curve. If the family of a person who are blind have the capacity to enroll them in this kind of school much better for them.
In today’s modern society, technology paved its way to even enhanced and develop the quality of tools and technique of an educators and students learning pattern. Computer can easily be taught to blind people using keyboard to grasp such letter and intelligent voice command using speaker and very good software especially designed for visually impaired students. This technology has brought about all the possibilities for a blind and a visually normal individual an equal opportunity to learn.
Although we may say that training such individuals requires much effort to do so, we can also find so many ways to deal with it. All the mentioned above tools and equipment have revolutionized the teaching methods when dealing with people who are blind. The most important teaching guide for the blind that we can stress over and over again is their family. They are the motivating factor and the source of strength of a child whatever their position is, they should be given enough attention and support to able to deal with all difficulties they may encounter in school. Let us spend our time with them because they need it, this is not to give them the over dependency but a path to learn and gain the knowledge they deserve.
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