Understanding Students with Visual Disabilities

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Some neurodivergent students may have visual disabilities - they may have trouble seeing or processing visual content. Look through the lecture slides and watch the lecture video in order to better understand the challenges students with auditory disabilities face and to learn how to better their learning experience.

Lecture Slides

Lecture Video

Quick Links to Useful Resources

Teaching Students who are Visually Impaired Links to an external site.

References

[7]     S. Muwanguzi and L. Lin, “Wrestling with Online Learning Technologies: Blind Students’ Struggle to Achieve Academic Success,” International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 43–57, Jun. 2010.

[8]     D. Fitzpatrick, "Teaching Science subjects to Blind Students," Seventh IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2007), 2007, pp. 917-918, doi: 10.1109/ICALT.2007.233.