
Teaching Visually-Impaired Skills to Navigate Independently
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Camp teaches visually impaired students skills to help them become more independent.
Jefferson County Public Schools’ Camp Vision offers fun activities to visually impaired students to help them develop skills that allow them to better navigate independently inside and outside of the classroom.
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Teaching Visually-Impaired Skills to Navigate Independently
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Jefferson County Public Schools’ Camp Vision offers fun activities to visually impaired students to help them develop skills that allow them to better navigate independently inside and outside of the classroom.
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It offers fun activities to visually impaired students so they can better navigate independently inside and outside of the classroom.
We show you how in today's education Matters segment.
This campus for are visually impaired.
Students and the visually impaired students come to our camp in the summer to go through expanding curriculum.
>> If you cannot see.
When someone is teaching you something, we have to help.
You learn how to see whatever is going on.
The middle school side.
We're going to a lesson on making pizza bagels.
So we have a talking We and air fire that has some modifications on a persons who are visually impaired anything that we've done.
We've modified in some which way we either enlarge those for them or we provide a magnifier for them.
Some of the suits are using Domingue the fires.
One student he uses Braille so we can we can do any of those things to help them.
And then on the elementary side, they're doing pretty much the same thing they're doing.
The Home Depot kids.
We've brought in small hammers.
We brought in the Phillips head screw drivers for them.
Some of the students have never held a tool.
Some of these kids know really had to do it.
And we have students who help each other.
Hey, you can't figure this out.
They help you.
So they're in there and they're helping each other.
We kind of stand back and let him do it.
They can camp helps people that can't see very well.
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Barnes like him, but plant saying pain tools, a treasure chest.
>> Everybody's visually impaired.
But there are different stages.
We have some students who have no vision whatsoever.
So they're reading Braille.
There is some students here just a little bit visually impaired.
Maybe don't have vision on one side.
>> As we make sure that's on their left side so they can see it.
We have some students who just have very limited vision and they have to everything very close.
We have some students who also do have some hearing.
We have to teach you how to do all the things that you would typically visually see a home because people that are behind it learning it's.
>> Help the cause was in June 2, 2, that helps me with my actually teaches.
>> And so I I know who I am.
>> It feels really like special because and lot of people don't have that stuff.
>> They're learning how to do all those things.
We don't have time during classroom to teach them.
They're going to go back to class and they're going to be a little bit more mature because they've also help their friends.
They've made friends.
They had that social part of life.
You know, you don't get to do that.
You might be the student in class.
That's the only visually impaired student, whereas here everybody is usually impaired and it doesn't matter.
>> So you saw those purple shirts that said Shirley's way that the students and the teachers were wearing.
Well, that's a local nonprofit in Louisville that donated all of the games and toys for the students to use during the camp Good story
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