Visual Impairment Including Blindness
Visual Impairment including blindness means an impairment in vision, that even with correction, adversely affects a student's educational performance. The term includes both partial sight and blindness.
They include:
- Students with visual acuity of 20/70 or less in the better eye with best correction,
- Students have a severely restricted field of vision,
- Students with visual difficulties, not visual perceptual difficulties, for whom significant modifications in their educational program have not been sufficient.
Overview
Since students with Visual Impairments vary in their individual profiles and abilities, Prince William County offers a range of program options to meet the educational needs of each student. The first program option allows students to attend their neighborhood school with services provided through the itinerant program. A teacher for the Visual Impairment works with students individually or in small groups both in and out of the regular education classroom. In addition, the teacher for the visual impaired works with the classroom teacher to ensure accommodations and modifications for visually related needs are met. Program levels utilize assistive technology. Additional placements are determined by the IEP team.
Related Links & Downloads
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- Virginia Department Education, Visual Impairment/Blind
- American Council of the Blind
- American Foundation for the Blind
- American Printing House for the Blind
- Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired
- The Hadley School for the Blind
- National Federation of the Blind
- Path to Literacy for Students Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
- Perkins School for the Blind
- Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind
- Virginia Project for Children and Young Adults with Deaf-Blindness (VBDP)
- 2010 Guidelines for Working with Students Who are Blind or Visually Impaired in Virginia Public Schools
Heather Grim, Supervisor
GrimHL@pwcs.edu
Leslie Parrott, Administrative Coordinator
ParrotTL@pwcs.edu
703-791-8530
Donna Espinales, Administrative Assistant II
EspinaDY@pwcs.edu
703-791-7419