INCLUSION OF STUDENTS WITH VISUAL DISABILITIES IN BASIC EDUCATION

Abstract

The present study intends to relate some behaviors in order to provide the improvement of education for people with visual impairments. These actions will be applied by the competent bodies in each school that wishes to use such methods and executed by the previously trained and educated people. The actions indicated were as follows:  Understand the difficulties of perception of detail that the student presents and the need to approximate the blackboard or the teaching material. Facilitate detail discrimination, enhancing the contrast and illumination of the material to be discriminated. Favor the development of visual awareness by helping the student to analyze and interpret more complex forms of objects and figures.  To promote the student's visual repertoire through multiple experiences, including tactile and auditory aids when vision is not enough. To motivate the student to construct the mental images from the concrete experience with the objects for the three-dimensional representation and the symbolic representation. Help the student to understand their real visual field changes, difficulties with scotoma (blind spot), seeking the best positioning of the head or the material that favors better visual performance.