EDUC230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Oxygen Therapy, Cerebral Palsy, Peripheral Vision
25 Oct 2017
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Students who are blind or have vision loss. Field of vision is 180 degrees: sometimes kids can have field cut (vision is missing, central vision, peripheral vision is the outer ranges of the field of vision (to the sides) Field cuts: these are large blocks of the field of vision that are not functional, can occur in tbi, strokes -- big strokes. Functional blindness: no sight or little sight that the student learns through other senses (example: braille) Idea definition of blindness: as usual -- related to learning : visual impairment including blindness means an impairment in vision that, even with correction, adversely affects a child"s educational performance. The term includes both partial sight and blindness. Fewer than 2 in 1,000 -- this figure does not include low vision -- only about 1 in 250 children with an iep have vision loss.
