School for visually impaired children: learning features
Special education institutions are part of the government system that helps children with special needs. The school for visually impaired children works according to a special program – it allows you to give a complete education and upbringing to those who need it and cannot get it in the usual mode of study.
Features of special schools
They perform special tasks – the formation of a harmonious personality, the correction of mental development, the search for their own path and place in society. Children receive help in self-realization and the acquisition of an active life position, self-esteem and talent development, despite the illness.
The school for visually impaired children works according to an adapted program
Training is based on the following basic principles:
- The curriculum is delivered in a dosed manner, at the pace and volume in which children can learn new knowledge. In this regard, the plan is stretched, it may have a longer duration than in a regular school. The load is redistributed differently, taking into account the ailment of children.
- Developing children’s capabilities in accordance with their common problems and applying an individual approach to everyone.
- The use of special teaching aids, teaching methods, class equipment.
- Maintaining accessible sanitary and hygienic conditions, organizing rehabilitation work.
- Helping graduates in the process of social and labor adaptation.
The program includes all general education subjects such as Russian and mathematics. Children get acquainted with the world around them in the lessons of natural history and biology. The presentation of knowledge is adjusted in a special way and is aimed at the development of perception and the formation of imaginative thinking.
For teaching, textbooks in Braille are used, as well as a variety of textbooks of popular science, historical, economic content. There are books on the study of music, literature, art.
For children with visual impairment, a combination of volumetric type and images is used. For visually impaired students, teaching materials with large print and illustrations are provided.
Schools are equipped with tiflotechnical structures – they help to optimize and speed up the education process. With their help, visual perception is transformed into auditory and tactile perception. Also, visually impaired children get the opportunity to receive adapted optical signals – this is achieved by increasing the contrast and volume of images. This practice is not harmful to residual vision, but, on the contrary, is a means of correcting it.