Teaching BVI Students Reading Skills

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Tips for Teachers Types and degrees of visual impairment Adaptive equipment

Tips for Teachers

Types and degrees of visual impairment
Adaptive equipment
Equal access to

education
Individualized learning pace
Supportive learning environment
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Adaptive equipment Electronic adaptations: Scanners to change print text to electronic

Adaptive equipment

Electronic adaptations:
Scanners to change print text to electronic one
Software to

access electronic text through Braille display equipment
A computer voice output
Audiocassette tapes, CDs,MP3s
Digital audio recordings
Braille documents
Large print, magnifies
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Teaching Methods Highly structured, multisensory, direct and explicit approach Predicted structure

Teaching Methods

Highly structured, multisensory, direct and explicit approach
Predicted structure
Planned repetition
Kinesthetic, auditory

and visual modalities in instruction
Reduced reading
Extended time to formulate replies
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How to Assist the BVI Student to Learn Talk to the

How to Assist the BVI Student to Learn

Talk to the student

before the course begins:
- previous learning experience
assistive technologies
Provide with information to obtain electronic versions
Go over the class agenda, summarize the material orally
Say aloud anything written on the blackboard
Refrain from pronouncing ‘this’ or ‘that’, ‘here’ or ‘there’
Spell out unfamiliar words
Go over any handout verbally
Repeat and recycle the material multiple times
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How to Assist the BVI Student to Learn Allow a blind

How to Assist the BVI Student to Learn

Allow a blind student

to use his own computer or adaptive notetalker in class
Ask all students to identify themselves as they speak
Pair a sighted student with a blind one
Engage the class in oral exercises
Engage sighted students to produce taped recordings of assigned texts
Include oral testing
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Tips to the Teacher Reduce reading material Make sentences shorter Exclude

Tips to the Teacher

Reduce reading material
Make sentences shorter
Exclude unfamiliar words
Record the

text slowly modelling good phrasing and expression
Divide the text into sense groups
Record the sense groups
7) Pronounce the sense groups
8) Arrange pair work
9) Do not use the words ‘look’
10) Spell or ask your sighted students to spell unfamiliar words and explain/translate these words into your native language
11) Provide with the text to read it at home
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Reading Aloud You must excuse a letter from somebody you may

Reading Aloud

You must excuse a letter from somebody you may this

morning not even remember. It is the lonely young man with the black face beside the door to whom you were so kind last night. I have only just returned from Cambridge, to Calcutta, and know no one here. It was a real ordeal to find myself at Government House, at such a large party, all alone in the world.
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Dividing into Sense Groups You must excuse/ a letter from somebody/

Dividing into Sense Groups

You must excuse/ a letter from somebody/ you

may this morning/ not even remember./ It is the lonely young man/ with the black face/ beside the door/ to whom/ you were so kind last night./ I have only just returned/ from Cambridge,/ to Calcutta,/ and know no one here./ It was a real ordeal/ to find myself/ at Government House,/ at such a large party,/ all alone in the world./