About: Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments
Students with visual impairments should be held to the same standards with the same high expectations as students without visual impairments in the general education curriculum. Just like students without visual impairments, braille reading students are diverse in their abilities and interests and should be encouraged to explore areas of interest to them.
Classroom teachers and other educators should avoid creating separate standards for students with visual impairments in the classroom. In other words, avoid assigning every-other-problem to students with visual impairments if the remainder of the class is completing every problem. Students with visual impairments may be allowed to use alternate methods of completing assignments (e.g., using a talking calculator or other piece of assistive technology), but the ultimate goal of completing an assignment should remain the same.
In addition to the general education (core) curriculum, it is widely accepted that students who are visually impaired should receive direct instruction in areas of the “expanded core curriculum” (ECC). Information on the Expanded Core Curriculum can be found under Curriculum on the main page of this website.
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