Inclusive Social Strategies
“Effective social interaction skills enable the student to participate in healthy and safe social relationships, seek information to solve problems, and participate in recreation/leisure activities.”
(Statewide vision resource centre, 2014)
This may be difficult for visually impaired children, depending on the severity of their impairment they may not be able to see and pick up on body language and expressions that play a vital role in social interactions. Visually impaired students to improve their social skills generally need to focus on:
(Bowen, 2011) |
These skills can be improved by the teacher programming the following:
(Bowen, 2011) |