How Did You Visual Impairment Affect Your Academically And Socially?

Question: What up Todd thanks for allowing me to interview you about your vision.
Answer: No problem Muhammad we go back along way anything I can do to help you, I got nothing but time on my hands.
Question: How did you visual impairment affects you academically and socially.
Answer: Well back in middle school during our Hillside school days I had to wear those big coke bottle glasses to see the black board, without them everything was just a blur, so it affects my grades. Socially I was find but was unable to play allot of sports due to my vision, I wished I could played ball with the rest of you all.
Question: What did your teachers do to assist you academically and socially?
Answer: Well most of them moved my desk to the front role of the
Sellers and the author are childhood friends from middle school fifth grade throughout high school to this present day. The author of this summary has watched his dear friend’s vision decline of the years to the state of total blindness. The interview was very emotional for the author do to the relationship and the memories of witnessing some of the teasing of Mr. Sellers during their middle school years. Mr. Sellers’s mention that his teachers would make sure that his desk was position at the front of the classroom after it was determined that he was visually impaired. This action by his teachers allowed for him to gain a visual advantage to see the blackboard and to hear during time of instruction. Mr. Sellers did state that this was the 70’s and not much technology was available for teachers and students with visual disabilities to
Sellers did state that during his high school years the educators used overhead projectors and reading machines that were well illuminated to assist him. As this author thinks back he did remember these pieces of technology that were used not only for Mr. Sellers but for reading lessons for the classroom. With the reading machine the educator were able to control the size of the text and the speed and lighting of the words that would flash before the students. This interview showed the author how far advance technology and knowledge of addressing the problems of students with hearing and visual impairments has come. As an educator this author well serve these students with empathy and compassion keeping in mind that each individual students needs are very different, and that the key is to know your students read their IEP’s develop communication with the caregivers and other professional who come into contact with these students. Research is the key to understanding these disabilities and keeping up on new strategies, methods and technology that could be used to make the learning experience a success and joyful time for the