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that is for professionals only. This skill is, for most, a simple birth right; the sense of sight. For the educator, either in the special education class or regular classroom,
dealing with a student that has impaired vision can be difficult. However, understanding the disability, its risk factors and its impact on the various developmental stages, can aide the instructor
in providing a quality education for the disabled student. BLINDNESS: DEFINITION AND CAUSES * Visual impairment, or blindness, occurs when one or more parts of the eye are so
damaged or undeveloped that the images arent received in the brain, or the images cannot be processed once they reach the brain. * Accidents, heredity, and disease can also
cause blindness. * Surgeries can possibly restore sight, as in the case of a cataract. A new surgery is called intraocular surgery where they replace the eyes lens. However, only
a small percentage are able to have blindness corrected by surgery. IMPACT OF THE DISABILITY * Consider how important non-verbal cues are for learning social skills. Everything from a
look of scorn to a dangerous warning stance are not perceived by the visually impaired person(Eaton 1999). Socially, then, blindness impairs the students social abilities. * Visual impairment limits the
students ability to fully explore the environment. Without the visual stimulation to move toward something, to be curious about something, there is little desire to learn or interact with anything.
Thus, it impacts the child cognitively. * Language is also affected many times if the child has been blind from birth. If the child has been blind since birth, he
cannot learn by imitation. Thus, language must be learned through auditory methods. Language can be delayed or develop slower than in other children the same age. IMPACT TO THE FAMILY
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