Specialist Teaching Services
Vision Support Service
What is meant by Visual Impairment?
- The term covers a number of conditions which can adversely affect near and distance vision and/or visual fields.
- A child or young person with a visual impairment may suffer difficulties in the range of what can be seen clearly, or vision may be blurred or distorted and the field of vision may be reduced.
- The visual impairment will reduce the level of a child or young person’s experiences by limiting his/her ability to gain information from the immediate environment including the home and school.
- Some children are born blind or with partial sight, others may lose their sight partially or completely following an accident or illness.
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