Faculty Guide: Visual Impairment

Accommodations

• If possible, decide which textbooks you will use at least two months before the semester begins. It allows for the student to order and receive taped textbooks.
• Please provide handouts of information that is visually disaplayed (i.e. chalkboard, powerpoint, overheads).
• Large font size is preferred for class handouts/exams for partially sighted students. 
• Blind students may need readers to adminster exams and record responses. 

Other accommodation items include:

• Braille or large print books
• Readers
• Tape recorded texts and lectures
• Raised line drawings of diagrams, charts, and illustrations
• Talking calculators
• Braille computer terminals
• Reading machines
• Close circuit TV magnifier or other magnifying device

 These items can be helpful to visually impaired students depending on their level of sightedness.