EDUC230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: The Blind, Albinism, Far-Sightedness

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Education
• Course: EDUC230
• Professor: Gary Alison

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Strabismus -- cannot focus on same object with both eyes -- inward or outward pointing of both eyes -- caused by muscle imbalance: concern for reading, may need to do things orally. National federation of the blind: over 1,000 organizations that provide services to persons who are blind or have low vision -- American federation for the blind and national braille and technology institute: bar code readers. Best practice: most common for students who are blind is braille, braille is augmentative communication device, talking aids -- books on tape, personal computers, braille key pads and / or audio or voice activated. Best practice continued: optacon -- the optical to tactile converter, converts written print to vibrating form. For low vision -- retraining - example: lazy eye (exercise: use what vision that you have, magnifiers for regular print. Large print materials -- standard font is times new roman 12 -: use large print 24, 48, etc.