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Strategies to promote literacy for children with blindness or visual impairment: Provide a variety of hands-on, meaningful experiences. Children learn best through real-world experiences in which they can have a direct, first-hand understanding of something and not just a verbal explanation.
- Share your love of reading by reading aloud with your child every day. Choose times and places that are quiet, comfortable and free of distractions. For a child with visual impairment, the sounds of other children playing, the washing machine going or background music can make it difficult for them to focus on the story.
- Choose books that relate to the child’s own experience. Regular activities such as bath time, visiting grandma or going to the grocery store are activities your child may be familiar with, and can make the story much more interesting to them.
- Use interactive language to make the story more engaging and meaningful. You can say things like, “Jose went to the grocery store in this book. Do you remember when we went to the grocery store yesterday?”
- Use objects to support the story. You may feel sad that your child is missing out on the beautiful illustrations in a story book – but you can go one better and use actual objects to illustrate the story that your child can touch and hold.
- Share your love of reading by reading aloud with your child every day. It is important to set aside time each day to read with your child. This does not mean that you have to read a book from cover to cover or make the child listen to each and every page.
- Choose times and places that are quiet, comfortable and free from distractions. Life is often busy and can be chaotic, especially when juggling schedules and other children.
- Choose books that relate to the child’s own experience. Many young children who are blind or visually impaired have limited experience with the world, and if they have additional disabilities or are deafblind this is even more true.
- Use objects to support the story, in place of illustrations (storyboxes). As with the examples above, real objects can be used to illustrate and expand the story.
Feb 20, 2024 · Get useful tips and ideas from the RNIB to help you support blind or partially sighted children in school. Across the UK, it's estimated that around 25,000 children aged 0-16 have a vision impairment: that's 2 children out of every 1000 who may require a high level of specialist provision to learn on equal terms with their sighted peers*.
What are the pre-requisite skills and readiness activities to prepare a child who is blind or visually impaired to read? Written by: Gwyn McCormack. Sighted children develop and gain knowledge and experience through incidental learning. During their first few years of life they have exposure to a vast range of visual symbols that convey meaning.
Introducing books and reading to a child who is blind may seem daunting, but it really isn’t. You’ve just been told your new baby has a visual impairment, or that your toddler is losing her vision.
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Blind or partially sighted children may be able to read print or large print, sometimes with the help of specialist equipment. Most books for younger children have large print but size isn’t the only factor that affects how easy it is to read. Try looking for: • Contrasting colours for print and background (e.g.
